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Mikiya Coley 2nd Grader Mollison Elementary School


THE FIGHT TO STAY Students, teachers and parents from Irvin C. Mollison Elementary School mobilized and converged upon the Chicago Public School Board hearing to protest and testify against the proposed consolidation of Mollison and Wells Prep. CPS announced that it would consolidate the two schools because of Mollisons poor academic performance.  Wells needed to move out of Wendell Phillips High School, soon to be a turnaround school. The move would have relocated Wells Prep administration, teachers and students to Mollison. They were to replace the present administrators and some teachers while consolidating the students. Irvin C. Mollison School, named to honor a prominent African American lawyer, would have been renamed. One by one, they came to the podium, parents teachers and students testifying in protest of the consolidation. Irvin C. Mollison efforts paid off. On February 24th, CPS announced that the consolidation would not take place.  

(CHICAGO) November 30, 2009 -- Hundreds of Chicagoans joined Father Michael L. Pfleger in front of a new billboard on the Southside of Chicago. In an effort to stop the senseless killing of young people that has plagued the community this year, Fr. Pfleger and his congregation raised $4,500.00 to erect 20 such billboards in Pilsen, Englewood, Roseland, Hyde Park, Woodlawn, Grand Crossing and the South Shore communities. Fr. Pfleger told the frustrated and angry crowd of mothers, fathers and children who face this violence every day, "Solving the violence against our youth demands a comprehensive response and one of the responses must be to send a clear message that we are coming after anyone who shoots our children."

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