Walter Gresham Elementary School

Walter Gresham Elementary School parents will hold a Friday news conference to announce what's next.

Walter Gresham Elementary parent Anthony Jackson said he had been in touch with CPS officials Monday.

The nation's oldest civil rights organization is investigating whether a school ''turnaround'' was fair.

After parents occupied the school Friday, no one's allowed inside after 6 p.m. without security present.

The parents, upset at plans to overhaul the school, want to meet at a school council meeting Tuesday.

Gresham Elementary parents are angry at CPS over the board's "turnaround" designation.

A new parents group will meet for the first time Tuesday to discuss ways to save Gresham Elementary.

Schools in Auburn Gresham, Chatham and Englewood will get $6 million, mainly for air conditioning.

Jonathan Jackson, a spokesman for his dad's group, said the district shouldn't overhaul Gresham.

About 100 people attended a protest outside the Kenwood home of the Chicago School Board president.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis called the CPS proposal a "hostile takeover."

Walter Gresham Elementary Principal Diedrus Brown said she is not going down without a fight.    

After years on academic probation, Gresham is slated to undergo a possible staff overhaul.