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Public commenters urge support for arts programs and real‑time safety alerts at CPS hearing
Summary
During the Oct. 23 public hearing on a PE waiver, speakers representing an arts organization and a retired police officer urged the board to support arts programming and to adopt real-time 9‑1‑1 alerting systems (citing Alyssa's Law); both comments were delivered during public participation and did not prompt board action at the hearing.
Two members of the public used the hearing's public-participation period to press the Chicago Board of Education on separate issues.
Mark Bracken, introduced by staff as the first registered speaker, described his work as director of production at Shy Arts and asked the board to remember the nonprofit's role in…
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