Hyde Park High sees white enrollment fall two years running
Public hearings reveal Hyde Park High School white enrollment dropped to 264 on Oct. 8, a two year decline that lowers white share to 6.9 percent of a 4,255 total. Officials project about 6,000 high school students in District 14 in three years amid proposals for new and unified schooling plans.
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Hyde Park High School
Benjamin C Willis
Hyde Park High
Willis
Board of Education
George Benston
Maryland
Unity Group
Benston
Robert Havighurst
Stony Island
Kimbark Plaza
Meyer Weinstein
Par Drugs
Hyde Park
Kenwood
Bret Harte
Kozminski
Murray
Ray
Reavis
Shoesmith
Racial head count sparks debate on Unity proposal
The discussion centers on 4 500 students lemma with Cyrus H Adams and Clement arguing large schools aid integration while Mrs. Malis and Black dispute under 6 000 students' viability. Black cites 94 Hyde Park High teachers in support. University of Chicago professor Ashenhurst testifies for Unity and a comprehensive curriculum at the site amid SWAP and Woodlawn group backing.
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Murray School
PTA
Murray
Maxine Hoffman
Alan Thomas
Kenwood
Thomas
James Clement
Hyde Park Blvd
Raymond Pasnick
Hyde Park
Woodlawn
Clement
Cyrus H. Adams
Louis Malis
Timuel D. Black
Ellis
Malis
Willis
Schools of America
University of Chicago
Grant Park
Chicago
Barbara Carey
Poverty program stoppage charges shock Hyde Park ward
Claude W. B. Holman accused the Department of Urban Renewal and its Operation Push-up program of pressuring anti poverty staff in the Ingleside block. DUR coordinator Herbert Erfurth denied any termination requests while eight of 34 buildings on the block reached code compliance. Rubloff plans for a 240 unit Hyde Park Lake Park project faced opposition over density and parking. Elms Hotel agreed to a zoning change and a 158 unit high rise.
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4Th Ward
Claude W. B. Holman
Chicago Beach
Department of Urban Renewal
Ingleside
Holman
Conservation Community Council
Herbert Erfurth
Dorchester
Hyde Park
Kenwood
Office of Economic Opportunity
DUR
Erfurth
CCC
Arthur Rubloff Co
54Th and
Lake Park
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Blackstone
Rubloff
Hyde Park Federal Savings and Loan Association
Elms Hotel
53Rd
Cornell
Elms
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Havighurst
Kim Marriott
McKim Marriott
Harper
Friends of the Public Schools
Hyde Park-Kenwood
Ted Palmer
Palmer
53Rd and
Unity
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