Judge To CPS: Let Unsafe Fenger Students Transfer

CHICAGO — A federal judge says Chicago Public Schools must arrange for the immediate transfer of students who want to leave a South Side high school after an honor student's brutal beating death.

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman's ruling Monday came in a lawsuit filed last week against the district by 11 students who say they don't feel safe at Christian Fenger Academy High School. Along with the transfers, the students want a judge to order the district to make Fenger safer.

Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old Fenger honor student, was beaten to death in September during a sprawling fight that was caught by a cell phone video camera.

Messages left for a district spokeswoman and lawyer weren't immediately returned.

Comments

[shthar]

03:42 PM on 11/16/2009

I know people in Chicago that send their kids to Kansas City to go to school.

[Carol Snow]

02:49 PM on 11/16/2009

Wow, so this means they have no plans to try to make the school safer.... this is depressing.