A new Chicago Public School anti-violence campaign is sending the bulk of $30 million in federal stimulus dollars this school year to 38 high schools identified by officials Tuesday.Other local high schools in addition to Harlan and Robeson include: Chicago Vocational, Simeon, Corliss, Julian, Hirsh, TEAM Englewood, Bowen Campus, and South Shore Campus.
Roughly 80 percent of CPS students who were shot or killed in the last five years attended classes at one of these locations, CPS officials say.
As a result, the schools are producing plans to bring a "culture of calm" to their campuses. They will be hiring community groups to provide mentors, truancy workers and citizen patrol squads.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Harlan and Robeson gets funding for mentors and citizen patrol squads
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