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This Tuesday night, 7:30pm, at 205 N. Race St (just north of
downtown Urbana), the Urbana School District will consider an
appalling proposal, coming from the Champaign County Housing
Authority:<br>
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If students are not regularly attending school, and their
families live in public housing, then those families would lose
their assistance from the housing authority. They'd be kicked out
of their homes. <br>
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This terrible idea needs to be stopped. Please come out to say so.<br>
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Below is the original announcement:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';
font-weight: 300">TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15: URBANA SCHOOL DISTRICT
#116 </span><span style="font-size: 15.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'; font-weight: 300">BOARD OF
EDUCATION MEETING
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">Time:
730pm<br>
Location: Jean F. Burkholder Administrative Service Center,
205 North Race Street, Urbana, IL
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">Last
Tuesday, the executive director of the Housing Authority of
Champaign County asked the
Urbana school board to consider making regular attendance a
requirement for families
receiving assistance from the housing authority. The regular
attendance mandate would be a
new addition to a long list of requirements for families in
need. There were no objections by
the school board to this racialized penalty on low-income
families. This is a prime example of
the school to prison pipeline. Actions such as these could
easily lead to incarceration and
broken homes. Please come to this meeting and oppose the
Housing Authority’s request. The
Housing Authority of Champaign County should have no power in
the operations of schools!
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