All articles by Matthew Mata

Next steps for student organizing

I have long since been an advocate for sustainable schools in Chicago. Having family who have worked and are still working as CPS teachers, the compassion for this fight is familiar, for every night I . . .

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Protesters ring in 2016 remembering tragedies, demanding Rahm's resignation...

While $150 tickets were needed to attend Chicago�s first ever �Star Rising," it didn�t hold back dozens of ticketless protesters from shutting down the Hyatt Hotel on Chicago's Gold Coast on New Year's Eve. Around . . .

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Students hold education summit, organize city-wide action for Friday, January 15...

Time and time again, the over 200,000 students in the Chicago Public School system are reminded that their voices will be suppressed if their opinions are not aligned with decisions made at 42 W. Madison. . . .

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News analysis: Students stage study-in at October Board of Education meeting to force CPS to 'bang the drum' for state funding...

[Editor's note: Walter Payton High School senior Matthew Mata is the editor-in-chief of the print and online publication The Paw Print.]

Twenty-two: A number students, teachers, parents, and administrations all over Chicago are . . .

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Students pressure decision-makers at Board meetings

Demanding a democratically elected school board and an end to the racist closing of neighborhood schools affecting minorities, high school students from Lindblom, Walter Payton, Lane Tech and Whitney Young spoke out at the Chicago . . .

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