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Education in the news, 11/19/2008: Social Justice Solidarity High School stalled in Chicago
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Delays for Chicago's proposed gay-friendly and bully-free Social Justice Solidarity High School
AP reporter Karen Hawkins: "Backers of a proposed high school touted as a haven for gay and bullied youth have pulled their proposal, saying they wanted to spend another year to finalize their plans.
Under mounting pressure from ministers and gay activists alike, Social Justice Solidarity High School planners had already changed the school's name and focus to create a school that would be one of the nation's largest to serve any students who've fallen victim to bullying and harassment.
The plan - pulled Tuesday night, hours before a scheduled Wednesday vote on its creation - also was a less explicitly gay version of a plan first presented to Chicago's board of education in October by schools chief Arne Duncan"
(Pictured: Chicago Public Schools Chief Arne Duncan. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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