Activists fighting for the future of Dyett High School in Chicago have endured more than four weeks without solid food, DNAinfo Chicago reports.
After initially saying that Dyett would be permanently closed, Chicago Public Schools recently announced that the school in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood would be turned into an open-enrollment arts school, while community activists have called for a Global Leadership and Green Technology academy.
According to DNAinfo,
“Several of the now 15 Dyett hunger strikers returned to City Hall Monday on their 29th day without solid food to call on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to at least have a ‘respectful conversation’ with them over the future of the Bronzeville school in Washington Park.
‘A compromise happens when two people come together and they work out together something that's agreeable to both parties,’ said Jitu Brown, a leader of the hunger strike, Monday at City Hall. ‘There was no compromise.’
According to Brown, he was told about the CPS plan 15 minutes before it was presented by Chief Executive Officer Forrest Claypool. Brown said he asked to continue to negotiate, but Claypool responded, ‘We're moving forward.’
‘That's not compromise,’ Brown said.”
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