[Peace] Urbana School District proposal - let's try to stop it

[Stuart Levy]

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:

    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.

This terrible idea needs to be stopped.   Please come out to say so.

Below is the original announcement:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15: URBANA SCHOOL DISTRICT #116 BOARD OF EDUCATION 
MEETING

Time: 730pm
Location: Jean F. Burkholder Administrative Service Center, 205 North 
Race Street, Urbana, IL

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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