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Press Release **** For Immediate Release May 21, 2013 http://pureparents.org/?p=20676 Contact: Julie Woestehoff, Parents United for Responsible Education. 773-715-3989 Diane Horwitz, Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education (CReATE). 847-332-2756 Ann Aviles de Bradley, Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University. 773-339-8479 Child mental health experts raise serious concerns about the impact of proposed mass school closings on Chicago students Today, several notable social workers, counselors, and academic researchers from prominent Illinois and Chicago organizations and universities submitted a set of statements to the members of the Chicago Board of Education detailing their serious concerns about the potential negative impact of school closings on Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students' social-emotional health. Their statements are available here. Tomorrow, the Board of Education is scheduled to consider approving up to 54 school closings and consolidations. The experts shared their statements at a press conference held at Roosevelt University and sponsored by Parents United for Responsible Education, a Chicago public school parent advocacy organization, along with education professors Ann Aviles de Bradley and Diane Horwitz. Among those speaking at the press conference were Ann Aviles de Bradley, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies, Northeastern Illinois University Daniel Cooper, Assistant Director, Institute of Public Safety and Social Justice, Adler School Francisco X. Gaytan, Assistant Professor School of Social Work, Northeastern Illinois University Erin Mason, President, Illinois School Counselor Association Cassandra McKay-Jackson, Assistant Professor, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago Erika Schmidt, Director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis