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CPS Wants Ideas to Reopen Dyett High School by April 6

By Sam Cholke | December 19, 2014 3:37pm
 Chicago Public Schools released guidelines Friday for what it wants out of Dyett High School if it is to stay open.
Chicago Public Schools released guidelines Friday for what it wants out of Dyett High School if it is to stay open.
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HYDE PARK — Chicago Public Schools released on Friday guidelines on how to keep Dyett High School open.

CPS decided in October to reconsider a 2012 decision to close the school and is seeking plans for how the high school at 555 E. 51st St. could remain an open-enrollment school in 2016.

The documents released on the CPS website Friday afternoon give broad parameters, asking would-be school operators to define a culture for the school, lay down general policies and set a budget using the district’s current funding levels of $5,444 per student.

The structure of the process would appear to give some advantages to the Coalition to Revitalize Dyett, a group of community organizations that has put pressure on CPS and politicians to approve a detailed proposal to keep the school open as an open-enrollment school with a focus on green technology.