Urban Prep Charter Academy Junior student Myles Brown with his mother Lisa Brown arrives for school at Urban Prep Charter Academy in Chicago on May 5, 2023.
Urban Prep seniors Miles Johnson participates in a college signing day rally at Daley Plaza in Chicago on April 27, 2023. Staff member Joseph Jones helps sophomore Stephon Harden with his tie during the opening assembly on the first day of school at Urban Prep in Englewood on Aug. 21, 2023. The decision puts a wrench in Urban Prep officials’ two-year battle with CPS, which revoked the charter of the school’s Bronzeville and Englewood campuses in October 2022 following a long line of missteps.
In a statement, CPS officials said the judge’s ruling does not immediately impact Urban Prep’s current students. “I’m speechless,” she said. “I feel that it is sad and unfair — CPS has not, cannot and will not ever be able to replicate the students that Urban Prep produced.” Gina Caneva, a former high school English teacher who taught at Team Englewood, a small CPS’ school that shared a building with Urban Prep said the school emerged during a 2010 movement to create nearly 100 new schools, mostly charters, to replace failing schools. The initiative was the brainchild of former Mayor Richard M. Daley and then-CPS CEO Arne Duncan.
“For a while, Oprah was giving them millions of dollars, people were just funding them and I was in the same building getting the regular CPS and we saw how much outside money could really help a public school, but at the same time I didn’t think that was fair,” Caneva said. “But the downfall saddens me.”According to the Illinois Report Card, Urban Prep had 217 students enrolled in the Bronzeville campus in 2023 and 155 students at its Englewood campus.
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