Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, December 6, 2017.
14 Chicago Public Schools high school football teams disappeared in 2017
Fourteen Chicago Public Schools high schools, including Whitney Young Magnet High School, dropped their football teams and programs in 2017 as enrollment continues to decline at neighborhood high schools, according to the Tribune. Reporter John Keilman profiles the football program at Englewood’s Robeson High School, which CPS is planning to close at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, and how it positively affects students. “It is the glue,” Robeson principal Melanie Beatty-Sevier said a few weeks before the closing announcement. “I just think it’s important to keep programs such as football in the schools if possible, especially when you have a small neighborhood school that’s struggling financially. You don’t want to just dismantle everything.” [Tribune]
