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April 2009 Anchors Away

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Senn H.S. Students Continue to Rally Against Injustice

Twenty students from Senn H.S. participated in the lively march and rally on Saturday March 14th in Little Village and Pilsen on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The students joined in with people of all ages and nationalities […]

March 2009 Anchors Away

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Active Defense of Community Schools

The movement against the Board of Education’s attacks on public schools has been very active this past month.

Parents and others camped out all night and held a candlelight vigil in front of Board of Education headquarters on the night of February 24-25.

People gathered in the hundreds […]

February 2009 Anchors Away

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

No to Attacks on Community Schools

The Chicago Board of Education is continuing its attacks on public education. Instead of improving schools, it is attacking community general education schools, and replacing them with various forms of privatized and charter schools.

In response to this, over a thousand teachers, parents, and students turned out in freezing weather […]

December 2008 Anchors Away

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Successful Meeting for Senn’s Green Program On November 25 there was a meeting to develop community support for a Green Program at Senn High School that has been initiated by the Senn Strategic Planning Committee. This is part of efforts to save Senn High School as a general community high school.

State Senator Heather Steans […]

Articles from the January Anchors Away

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Why We Say Navy Out Why we are for removing Rickover Naval Academy from the Senn Building

For those of you who were not around when the naval academy was forced into the Senn H.S. building over four years ago, here are the facts– The naval academy was placed into the Senn building over the objection […]