The Roberto Clemente Community Academy (commonly known as Clemente , Roberto Clemente High School ) is a 4-year public high school located in the West City community area Chicago, Illinois, United States. Clemente is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. The school is named for Puerto Rico baseball player Roberto Enrique Clemente (1934-1972).
Gina M. PÃÆ' Â © rez, author of The Near North West Side Story: Migration, Migration, and Family Puerto Rico , writes that in Chicago the school is known as " the Puerto High School Riko ". Jennifer Domino Rudolph, author of Realizing Masculinity Latino: Producing Masculatinidad writes that the school "is strongly associated with Puerto Rican nationalism". Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, author of the National Show: Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago , writes that the school was described in the media as "Puerto Rican nationalist" and " Puerto Rico ". Rudolph stated that the portrayal of violent media from the Puerto Rican nationalist movement caused the school to be controversial, and that the school was associated with many "reactions to the manifestation of Puerto Rican identity". According to PÃÆ'Â © rez, since 2004 most West City residents have a sense of pride in school, while also lamenting the common problems at Chicago public schools that appear in Clemente, such as gangs and school violence, dropouts, and exam scores. low..
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History
The school was founded in 1892 as the High School of the Northwest Division. It was renamed Tuley High School in 1906. In 1974 the school moved into a new facility across the street named Roberto Clemente High School. Density is the reason why Tuley's old building is closed. The students have demanded that the school be renamed after Clemente, as well as requesting the removal of the curriculum and principal that existed when the school closed in 1973.
1990s
Around 1988 Clemente High established a new curriculum centered around students and involved the involvement of parents and multiculturalism. Parents and local community activists as they form school curricula by way of the traditional American education system. In addition the school employs parents as mentors, room supervisors, office workers, and tutors. The school added a legal clinic to help parents, students, and immigrants.
In the 1990s, Chicago's regional media began criticizing Clemente's parents and activists. This happened when the Personal Responsibility and Employment Opportunities Act was passed in 1996. People in the media accused some parents in the area of ​​stealing money because schools gave them $ 20 for volunteer work even though they were also prosperous; this is despite the purpose of welfare reform legislation intended to encourage those who work for welfare. Other schools in Chicago endorse reforms at Clemente, which has reduced the dropout rate by more than 10%.
Around 1995 the Chicago area of ​​Illinois local and state officials accused the school of using an Illinois aid program to send students to Puerto Rico to attend radical political campuses, flight funds for players and speakers who supported Puerto Rico politically independent of the United States, and to provide money for an independent Puerto Rico fundraiser. In 1996 CPS launched an investigation into mismanagement of money. In 1995 and 1996, respectively, put Clemente on finance, and then a period of academic experimentation. In November 1996, CPS Clemente's evaluation stated "the political climate and divisions thwart academic progress at a very significant level so that students' education is ignored."
On January 31, 1997, Jerry Anderson, an administrator at Homewood-Flossmoor High School and a prospective principal candidate at Clemente, decided to refuse a position in Clemente after receiving a letter asking him to call your "boss" to FALN and a phone call asking him to meet with the leaders of the Puerto Rican community; he stated that "I do not think politics should have a part in education." He stated that on February 1, 1997 he received death threats on his answering machine. As a result, CPS head Paul G. Vallas informed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Edgar Lopez, chairman of the committee appointed by Illinois Council chairman to look at the school, accused it of being "radically controlled" and asked him to be broken into school which is smaller.
In February 1997 Irene DaMota, principal of Whittier Elementary School, was selected as Clemente's new principal.
The director of the Chicago Latino Institute, Migdalia Rivera, criticized the story and shared the rebuttal. In response, the newspaper defended its reporting.
A political strategist and businessman, Larry Ligas, someone who is not from Puerto Rico, claims praise for spearheading the story. He said he was informed, mostly from former propagandist of Puerto Rico's independence movement, Rafael Marrero, and gave it to Sun-Times journalist Michelle Campbell. Campbell verified what Ligas sent him and added some of his information. Ligas posted a press release praising the Sun-Times story before it was released. Ben Joravsky from Chicago Reader states that Ligas "is relatively unknown" at the time of the release of the story. Marrero, at the time, was an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He has tried to sabotage Puerto Antonio Corretjer Cultural Center Puerto Rico, which has a working relationship with Clemente. Marrero will then testify in which he accused the party of fraud.
With regard to the story itself, Joravsky states that by the time the story is released, people in northwest Chicago speculate about who is responsible for pioneering the story and not so much about its truth; in that case Joravsky states that the latter is a "perspective that varies with one's ideology".
On February 12, a group of Puerto Rican and Hispanic and other Latin people protested at the Sun-Times office, accusing the anti-Latino newspaper of bias and racism.
On Feb. 18 the head of the CPS, Vallas stated that Illinois lawmakers needed tougher rules with spending on funds devoted to impoverished children. Vallas criticized Clemente's program and central Puerto Rico. Although there is no concrete evidence to suggest that the school had an association with the Fuerzas Armadas de LiberaciÃÆ'³n Nacional PuertorriqueÃÆ'Â ± a (FALN), at a time the FBI accused him of doing so. The FBI has requested an investigation, and so does the US lawyer based in Chicago. Several audiences were held in the Illinois Legislature.
Ultimately no evidence of fraud appears. Oscar LÃÆ'³pez Rivera writes that Marrero "wreaked havoc on the hard work the community has done at the Clemente High School Center for years."
2000s and so on
Clemente is one of 16 national schools selected by the College Board to be included in the EXCELerator School Improvement Model program that started the 2007-2008 school year. This project is funded by Bill & amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.
The school is scheduled to begin using the International Baccalaureate program in the 2013-2014 school year.
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Student body
By 2015 the school has 750 students, with a large number of Puerto Rican Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans, and other groups from Hispanic and Latin American and Eastern European Americans.
In 1997 it had 2,400 students.
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Academic and programs
Clemente offers six Advanced Placement classes and is also an International Baccalaureate candidate school. Clemente also has a vocational education program that focuses on culinary arts and radio/television broadcasting. The latter program is taught by a reporter from the Chicago WGN-AM radio station. In addition, students can participate in JROTC. In 2012, 92.6% of Clemente students are classified as on-track to graduate.
In 2004 the school curriculum emphasized multiculturalism and aimed to develop ethnic pride.
It contains community events such as lectures and cultural programs available to everyone in the surrounding area.
In 2004 Clemente had links with the Alternative College of Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rico, Center; it was once used Campos as an alternative site. Clemente also has partnerships with Vida/SIDA and Aspira.
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Campus
The school includes various murals along Division Street depicting the symbols of Puerto Rican culture and Puerto Rican nationalism.
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Student performance
Around 2005, the school had one of the highest dropout rates in the United States.
Athletics
Clemente competed in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and was a member of the Illinois Higher Education Association (IHSA). Children's baseball teams are public league champions 9 times (1973-74, 1978-79, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1994-95, 1996-97 and 2001-02). From 1973 to 2005 the team won ten Chicago baseball championships, and Wilfredo Cruz, author of Puerto Rican Chicago , described the team as "tough".
Famous Alumni
- Saul Bellow, attending Tuley High School; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Victor Diaz, a professional baseball player with New York Mets and Texas Rangers
- Ramon Ocasio III, Cook County judge and president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association in Illinois.
- Mickey Rottner, attending Tuley High School; playing basketball for Loyola and professionally.
See also
- Chicago Public Schools
- List of schools at Chicago Public Schools
- Puerto Rico in Chicago
References
Further reading
- "Clemente's story erodes educator efforts" (opinion). Chicago Sun Times . February 9, 1997.
- Student, John. "Puerto Rico Fight For Rights In Chicago" (Archive). The Militant . March 3, 1997. Volume 61, Number 9.
- "90_HR0067 LRB9005400CBcbA House Representatives" (Archive). Federal States General Assembly's 90th Act.
- RÃÆ'os, Alejandra Cerna. "Clemente High, 8 Years After Investigation." Extras . April 27, 2005
- Spanish version: (in Spanish) RÃÆ'os, Alejandra Cerna. Translator: VÃÆ'ctor Flores. "CLEMENTE SECUNDARIA, 8 AÃÆ''OS DESPUÃÆ' â € ° S DE LA INVESTIGACIÃÆ'" N. " Extras . April 27, 2005.
External links
- The Roberto Clemente Academy Community school website
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