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Paving the Road from Punishment to Restorative Justice in CPS

by Grace Del Vecchio August 4, 2021August 5, 2021

n July 1, the Hyde Park Academy local school council (LSC) voted to remove one of the school’s two school resource officers (SROs)—Chicago police officers assigned to individual public schools—and reinvest the funds into a dean of climate and culture position. The decision comes a year after a historic summer of students fighting to get […]

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