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Protest outside CPS headquarters
National Teachers Academy Local School Council chair Elisabeth Green stands with two NTA students, Marieyea Crawford and Devon Collins, at a protest outside Chicago Public Schools’ headquarters on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. Greer pointed to 1,110 emails and letters that CPS received in support of maintaining NTA as an elementary school and 68 in favor of making it a high school. Credit: Photo by Kalyn Belsha