A group of residents staging a hunger strike to pressure Chicago Public Schools into reopening the former Dyett High School ... enrollment, arts-focused neighborhood high school.” ...

Dyett High School for the Arts, one of the few open enrollment high schools left on the South Side, reopened to freshmen on Sept. 6, 2016, one year after a group of protesters participated in a ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Marc Kaplan (from left), Jitu Brown and Irene Robinson reflect on their 34-day hunger strike in 2015 that helped reopen Dyett High School for the Arts ...

Freshmen walking through the doors of Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts on the South Side experienced feelings similar to those of new high school students everywhere, a mix of first-day ...

Earlier this week, the city announced that it would be reopening Dyett High School as an arts institution, but parents and activists were not appeased. They argue that city officials—many of ...

Members of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization said they're going on a hunger strike to ask that Dyett High School be ... career academy or a school for the arts. KOCO education organizer ...

The following year, Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts opened its doors to about 150 freshmen. With this background in mind, the team’s success has in some ways become a community ...

A new principal has been named to launch a reconstituted Dyett High School ... and announced it would open Dyett as an arts-focused open enrollment school, though it hasn’t released many ...

Following protests and a hunger strike, Chicago Public Schools announced Thursday that a "new" Dyett High School ... will reopen as an "arts-focused neighborhood high school and community ...

Walter H. Dyett High School — saved by neighbors who staged a 34-day hunger strike — held a college Decision Day Thursday for its entire graduating class, including members of its first state champion ...

CHICAGO -- A protest march demanded that Chicago's Dyett High School in Bronzeville be saved. Organizers say they've collected more than 700 signatures supporting the school. CPS announced two ...

CHICAGO — A group of residents staging a hunger strike to pressure Chicago Public Schools into reopening the former Dyett High ... enrollment, arts-focused neighborhood high school.” ...