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Civil-rights groups and parents press CPS for clearer policy after Pierce Elementary bulletin-board controversy
Summary
Civil-rights groups and parents urged Chicago Public Schools on June 26 to issue clearer guidance for schools and libraries after a library worker at Pierce Elementary placed an Arab American Heritage Month bulletin board that drew a large volume of outside complaints.
Civil-rights advocates and parents described an incident at Pierce Elementary in which a library worker put up an Arab American Heritage Month display that included factual material about conditions in Gaza, and the school subsequently received a large volume of outside email complaints.
Maggie Slaven of CARE Chicago told the board the principal and library worker "did not feel supported by CPS" and that the district’s offices — she named…
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