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Austin Polytech: Creating Healthy Futures
September 18, 2011
By: Dan Swinney

Recent articles about Austin Polytechnical Academy in Chicago—in the New York Times, The Reader, Substance, Austin Talks, and some blogs—focused on recent turmoil at the school.  Some of the teachers were given poor evaluations and asked not to return.  Some students took disciplined action in support of those teachers and were suspended.  We have a new principal—the third as we enter our fifth year.

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