Gavin Alston attended Price Elementary before it closed. His mother has decided to home school him rather than have him attend school in a different neighborhood.
Jitu Brown (right) before departing to Washington. His son is 4 and Brown says he is terrified about the prospect of him beginning his education in CPS.
Shannon Jalida Bennett, of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, explains why Chicago's top-down approach to education results in what he calls civil rights violations before boarding a bus to Washington.