A New Push For Vocational Education in Chicago and the U.S. – The 312 – February 2012 – Chicago

Yesterday the city announced a $479 million capital plan to support the city colleges’ “College to Careers” program, which, in part, would rebuild and expand Malcolm X College, “including a new Allied Health Academy that will strengthen ties to the Illinois Medical District.” As Deanna Isaacs of the Reader noted in its wake:

According to today’s announcement, the new campus is expected to open in 2015, and will include an Allied Health Academy, with ties to the nearby medical complex that includes Rush University Medical Center. The mayor has previously said that six of the seven City Colleges will be “reinvented” as designated specialty schools, leading critics to fear a mission-bending plunge into vocational training. The only other one revealed so far is Olive-Harvey, with a focus on transportation and distribution…

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