“Any school is exactly like Nettelhorst in their own way,” according to Dr. Susan Kurland, Principal of East Lakeview’s Nettelhorst School, when CBS-2 paid a visit. View the clip of our CPS success story on Inside Chicago.

If Nettelhorst students appear especially well accessorized this season, it could be due to the fabulous, fun handcrafted accessories created by four local designers — just for Nettelhorst — as part of the Think Free Cooperative.Students have been sporting items like arm warmers, leg warmers, scarves, hats, purses, and patches - all in the school colors of navy and white and bearing the Nettelhorst name. (more…)

On March 8, 2007 Governor Blagojevich visited the Nettelhorst School and announced a new education plan at a press conference held in one of the classrooms. CPS Superintendent Anne Duncan and Chicago Teacher’s Union President Marilyn Stewart also took part.

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Did you see our school on WTTW’s Chicago Matters: Valuing Education on June 6, 2006?

Check it out:

Source: WTTW - Chicago Matters

WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio’s Chicago Matters featured Nettelhorst parent Jacqueline Edelberg in a story about the transformation of the Nettelhorst School:

“Parent and Lakeview resident Jacqueline Edelberg had a problem. She loved living in her urban neighborhood, but she had a young daughter about to reach school-age. Most moms in her shoes, convinced all city public schools were awful, chose at this point either to move to the suburbs, or resign themselves to a life of long, stressful car drives to distant private or magnet schools. Jacqueline tells the story of how she fought against this fate by working to transform the public school down the street into a place the neighborhood would notice.”

Take a listen:

Source: Chicago Matters