“[Thuet and Brumfield] took each and every allegation of misconduct that came to their attention seriously and they each acted promptly, in good faith, and in the best interests of the students and the community,” Ryan said. Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, started a fund in December with $500,000 of his own to assist small businesses who write in. That led to severe bullying and retaliation against the whistleblowers, whose parents allegedly showed Thuet hard evidence that their child was being harassed and bullied. newsletter, Former Lincoln Park High School administrators deny wrongdoing, say they weren’t told why they were fired: report, CPS failed to protect Lincoln Park H.S. Lincoln Park High School is both a neighborhood school with attendance boundaries and a high school with three magnet programs. Lincoln Park High School scandal has sparked 5 investigations and top leaders’ removal. Here is how it unfolded. Condron says the girl was studying in a classroom after school on January 13 when she was raped by a male basketball player who left practice and attacked her. Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 during the Aug. 25 demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as hundreds were protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Condron says he hopes this lawsuit brings about a policy change at the school. The lawsuit filed by the female student’s father accuses CPS officials of carelessly allowing her to be raped at the Northwest Side school on January 13. “Still to this day I don’t have full confirmation of what happened,” he said. That alleged perpetrator in that incident is an athlete at the school and was named in the lawsuit. Gordon has not been accused of any sexual impropriety, and he has denied knowledge of any incidents on the trip. A lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of an anonymous student at the school alleged CPS didn’t protect her from a Jan. 13 sexual assault inside a Lincoln Park classroom after school. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The lawsuit comes at troubled times for Lincoln Park High School. Sidelined Lincoln Park High School Basketball Players Feel They’ve Lost Out Big In Scandal. An English version of the screening is attached here and Spanish and Arabic versions can be found at the attached link. Trump sides with Catholic high school students from controversial Lincoln Memorial confrontation President Trump weighed in on the viral confrontation from the weekend. End the Senate filibuster and force the GOP and Dems to govern instead of blame. Until now, CPS had only shared a broad list of allegations without tying specific instances of misconduct to individual staff members, leading to uproar from students and parents who fiercely defended their beloved principal, assistant principal and dean, and held protests to decry a lack of communication from the district. The names listed below are alumni who have been searched for on this site from Lincoln Park High Schoolin Lincoln Park, Michigan.If you see your name among the Lincoln Park High School graduates, someone is looking for you! By Hannah Leone. “This father does not want this to happen to anybody else and most of all he wants to protect his daughter,” said attorney Patrick Condron, Susan E. Loggans & Associates. A person with direct knowledge of the situation says the Lions and Stafford have mutually agreed to explore the possibilities of trading him. Sierra’s breakthrough came in 1972 when he played the role of Fred G. Sanford’s neighbor, Julio Fuentes, on "Sanford and Son.". Before any student or visitor comes to Lincoln Park High School, the health screener below should be reviewed to ensure you are healthy enough to attend. “If something happened to a student I’m not going to downplay it. Together with donations, the fund has grown to nearly $30,000,000 thus far. People … Publicly, the initial reason given for Gordon’s suspension was that he hadn’t received the proper authorization to take the team on the Detroit trip, and that he didn’t inform Thuet or Brumfield about the trip. Gordon, though, said the coaches were backgrounded last year and were actually being paid by CPS. Bernie Sanders’ inauguration appearance becomes instant meme, First snowstorm of season possible Monday in Chicago area, Skilling says, Snow to begin Saturday night, carry into start of work week, Cubs add catcher Austin Romine into the mix for 2021. Amy Zemnick, a community member of the LSC who was at the meeting earlier this week where the details were laid out, said Thursday that she doesn’t trust CPS’ investigation. CPS officials told the LSC that the principal, for six days, didn’t share that evidence or evidence of the incident on the trip with the district’s Office of Student Protections and Title IX, the department investigating the claims, the sources said. By Jermont Terry February 4, 2020 at 10:09 pm. Lincoln Park is a college preparatory high school committed to excellence in all subjects and programs. But at a closed-door meeting Tuesday evening with some members of Lincoln Park’s Local School Council — the school’s representative group of elected parents, teachers and community members — CPS officials went into much greater detail, explaining for the first time what led to the chaos at the school. “To my knowledge all of our coaches were approved and certified,” he said. We still don’t feel we have that information. The franchise is tearing itself down again for reasons that have to do with money and line items, not pride, loyalty or even victories. Hundreds of angry parents and members of the Lincoln Park High School basketball team turned out for a parent session Monday night about a sex misconduct scandal at the school. CPS officials told the LSC that Brumfield, despite her Title IX training, followed Thuet’s directions. Category Music; Show more Show less. Thuet and Brumfield did not respond to calls and messages seeking comment, and an attorney for Thuet, Barry Gomberg, did not comment. Lincoln Park High School began as North Division High School, which opened in 1875, as the first public high school on the north side of Chicago. “I think they were an interim and an assistant principal that walked into a situation that was a mess, and they were trying to clean it up.”, Asked if she and the rest of the LSC still support Thuet and Brumfield, Zemnick said “we’re fully behind finding out exactly what happened. Two administrators were fired at Chicago’s Lincoln Park High School and the varsity boys basketball team’s season was suspended amid a misconduct scandal. We follow the stories and update you as they develop. Justin Reyes was shot in the head and chest about 8:55 p.m. by two males who approached him and opened fire as he stood outside a home in the 6500 block of South Kenneth Avenue, police said. Know about breaking news as it happens. CHICAGO — An anonymous lawsuit accuses officials at Lincoln Park High School of failing to stop the sexual assault of a 15-year-old female student by a 17-year-old male student earlier this year. CPS officials told the LSC that Gordon, when he found out about the alleged sexual misconduct on the Detroit trip, tried to downplay the allegations, the sources said. A Lincoln Park High School teacher is charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old boy. Also, the former interim principal and former assistant principal have been fired and a dean reassigned amid a long list of misconduct allegations. Another incident that has been under investigation at Lincoln Park is the handling of a girls basketball coach’s alleged misconduct with a student. The lawsuit claims the school, “failed to adequately investigate past allegations of battery and/or sexual assault by” this same male student. But the Sun-Times hasn’t identified him because he hasn’t been charged with a crime and is not a defendant in the suit. Lincoln High’s principal and three assistant principals were removed from their positions Wednesday, continuing a leadership churn that has dogged the school for years. Luke Terrell gives a commencement speech at the 2009 Lincoln Park High School graduation in Chicago Thuet announced the coach’s removal from the school after he “engaged inappropriately with a student” a week before Thuet and Brumfield were fired. In this case, school administrators reported the incident to the district properly. Lincoln Park Public Schools serves K-12th grade students and is located in Lincoln Park, MI. Lincoln Park High School Threat Under Investigation - Lincoln Park, IL - Threatening graffiti was found in one of the school's bathrooms, according to a report. Then, once Thuet found out about the alleged incident of misconduct, the CPS investigation found he minimized the allegations and instructed the dean to organize a meeting between the accused students and the whistleblowers who first reported it, the sources said. CPS officials told the LSC that some of the students involved will likely never return to the school because of the trauma they faced from other students and staff. If you are a Republican and believe that the ideas of Democrats make for bad policy, you’ll have a better case that your party should hold power. The district found that Brumfield wasn’t careful in reaching out to the student, tipping off the basketball coach that he was under investigation, and she interviewed the student alone in her office without offering her to have her parents or another adult with her, the sources said. Businessman offers nearly $1 million to find out, Limited indoor dining returns to Chicago bars, restaurants; city under Tier 1, Larry King, broadcasting giant for half-century, dies at 87, 25 people evacuated from CTA Blue Line after rail switching error. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. But the CPS investigation found that, at the same time, Thuet told Brumfield, who was Lincoln Park’s Title IX representative, to look into the allegation on her own, outside of the inspector general’s investigation, according to the sources. The charter school has about 300 students and 200 employees. Students held a sit-in at the school Thursday — and several fights broke out. LPHS brings together students from over 150 elementary schools. The problems with the boys basketball team didn’t end there. Chicago Public Schools officials told representatives of Lincoln Park High School at a meeting earlier this week that school administrators minimized sexual misconduct allegations, didn’t protect whistleblowers or alleged victims from bullying and retaliation, withheld key evidence from investigators and lied to families about the status of investigations, sources with knowledge of the meeting told the Chicago Sun-Times. Thursday night, other LSC members questioned whether CPS had conducted a fair and thorough investigation at its regularly scheduled meeting before voting to retain attorney Bill Quinlan to conduct a separate probe into the series of allegations. A lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of an anonymous student at the school alleged CPS didn’t protect her from a Jan. 13 sexual assault inside a Lincoln Park classroom after school. AURORA, Ill. — During the COVID-19 pandemic, many small businesses have pooled together resources to stay afloat. Chicago Tribune |. Lincoln Park High School students stage a protest walkout and march around the building and neighborhood over the removal of school administrators and the suspension of the varsity boys basketball season, Thursday morning, Feb. 6, 2020. The series of problems at Lincoln Park that resulted in five investigations started on a boys basketball team trip to Detroit at the end of December. CPS officials told representatives at a meeting that school officials minimized sex misconduct allegations, didn’t protect whistleblowers or alleged victims from bullying, withheld key evidence from investigators and lied to families, sources with knowledge of the meeting told the Sun-Times. Did the Facebook app force log you out, too? The Lincoln Park charter school, located in the $23.5 million Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, opened in September but billed school districts for students attending in the 2005-06 school year, the education department alleges. A woman was in her vehicle about 12:16 p.m. in the 8000 block of Ballard Road when three males in a light-colored SUV pulled up in front of her, police said. CPS Offers New Details In Lincoln Park High School Scandal Photo credit WBBM Newsradio/Lisa Fielding. At the same time, he told the parents of the impacted students that officials from that department reviewed the evidence and didn’t find it to be serious, the investigation found. CPS is also still looking into a video that allegedly showed retired principal Judith Gibbs, one of the administrators put in the school to replace Thuet and Brumfield, grabbing a student’s face in a school hallway. CHICAGO — An anonymous lawsuit accuses officials at Lincoln Park High School of failing to stop the sexual assault of a 15-year-old female student by a 17-year-old male student earlier this year. 2018 10 18 Lincoln Park High School Chicago: Fall Choral Concert - Jasmine Luke Located at 2001 N Orchard St, Chicago, IL 60614. Cubs and chairman Tom Ricketts are bringing back that old, painful, very familiar feeling. Rodgers died from kidney disease on Jan. 18 in Palm Desert, California, and had also tested positive for COVID-19, publicist Alan Eichler said Saturday, citing family. Chicago police also confirmed last week that they are investigating the sexual assault report, but no charges have been filed. “Administrators at Lincoln Park High School failed to promote the best interests of their students and endangered victims who were counting on their support,” CPS spokesman Michael Passman said in a statement. Thuet also didn’t create a safety plan for the student, as per protocol, until a week after the Office of Student Protections told him to, the sources said. Chicago Public Schools issued a statement that reads in part:”Protecting students is our highest priority, which is why it was necessary for the district to take a series of personnel actions at Lincoln Park High School in response to serious allegations of recent adult and student misconduct.”. Posted: Jan 31, 2020 / 09:41 PM CST / Updated: Jan 31, 2020 / … The CPS investigation also found Thuet’s lack of oversight of the team led to Gordon bringing on assistant coaches who were not background checked nor registered with the district, the sources said. Restaurant and bar owners were able to invite customers back insider for limited indoor service Saturday for the first time in three months. KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — An 18-year-old Illinois teen charged with fatally shooting two people during a protest in southeastern Wisconsin last year is prohibited from associating with known white supremacists under a judge's recently modified bail conditions. Gordon, the coach, was suspended in early January as CPS investigated claims that he knew about some type of sexual misconduct on the trip that involved social media. New CPS policy forbids adult staff members from texting students. Chicago police confirm they are investigating a report of a sexual assault at Lincoln Park High School on that date, but no arrests have been made. He also said he was no longer at the school at the time of the alleged retaliation by members of the team, and said he doesn’t condone that kind of bullying behavior. CPS keeps saying trust us, but they haven’t done anything to earn our trust.”. Gordon, reached Thursday, again denied he had done anything wrong. February 4, 2020 02/04/2020 3:53 am. “Too many adults in the school community are needlessly creating an environment that is perpetuating the life-altering harm done to multiple students, and they are impeding the community’s ability to heal,” said Passman. CPS’ Passman said a probe launched by the LSC “would obstruct ongoing investigations into student harm and greatly risk retraumatization of the multiple student victims who must be prioritized at this time.”. The new, more extensive details for the first time shed light on the allegations that directly led to the firings of former interim Principal John Thuet and former Assistant Principal Michelle Brumfield, the reassigning of a dean, the removal of boys basketball coach Pat Gordon and the suspension of the team’s season, likely for its remainder. Students and parents at Lincoln Park High School are outraged after the school's principal and assistant principal were removed over misconduct allegations involving the basketball team. LINCOLN PARK — Hundreds of Lincoln Park High School students walked out of class Friday morning in support of teachers who will lose their jobs next year when the school transitions to … In an interview Thursday, Gordon denied he knew the details of the incident in Detroit. Responding to questions about the new details Thursday, CPS officials confirmed that several allegations were found to be “fully substantiated” through interviews with students, parents and staff, and that Thuet and Brumfield were interviewed before they were fired. The attorney for the student’s father says the lawsuit was filed in part to help preserve evidence in the case. Basketball team's season suspended, staff removed over misconduct allegations at Lincoln Park High School News. Chicago Public Schools officials told representatives of Lincoln Park High School at a meeting earlier this week that school administrators minimized sexual misconduct allegations, didn’t protect whistleblowers or alleged victims from bullying and retaliation, withheld key evidence from investigators and lied to families about the status of investigations, sources with knowledge of the … Passman added that the LSC doesn’t have the authority to hire its own investigators, who he said wouldn’t legally be allowed to access student records. Just about every ethnic group is represented in the student body. Later in the meeting, attorney Matthew Ryan announced that he had been engaged to represent Thuet and Brumfield “in connection with their wrongful dismissal.”. Afterwards, members of the LSC will make a statement about what was discussed. Rittenhouse has been charged with multiple counts, including reckless and intentional homicide, endangerment and being a minor in possession of a firearm. ”It’s my understanding that there may have been conflicting reports as to how exactly to handle this situation,” Zemnick said. CHICAGO (CBS)– Students at Lincoln Park High School are planning to walk out of class on Monday. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times. “The personnel actions we have taken were necessary to ensure a school environment that prioritizes the safety of all students, and we are committed to supporting the Lincoln Park High School community through this challenging time.”. The Lincoln Park High School scandal has sparked 4 investigations and top leaders’ removal. Several of those businesses operate as the 'Cotton Seed Creative Exchange' in downtown Aurora, which supports local artists and creators from around the area with a large availability of local artwork. This comes after Chicago Public Schools … It is crying poor. This is not a partisan opinion held only because Democrats hold the majority. Feb 07, 2020 at 12:50 PM. This building opened as Robert A. Waller High School in 1900. Those assistant coaches, who have since been removed, were allowed to travel with the team. “We know that at Christmas time, the basketball trip in Detroit, these basketball players, one of them was alleged to sexually assault a girl on that trip,” Condron said. “We’re hoping they are going to change policy at school and that they are going to increase the supervision, you’re going to teach kids about the human value of each other,” Condron said. Romine slashed .238/.259/.323 with two home runs and 17 RBI in 37 games for the Tigers in 2020. NORTHBROOK, Ill. — A longtime restaurant owner in Northbrook struggling to keep his business open during the COVID-19 pandemic had a long-shot call for help answered in a big way. The incident is one of the ones under investigation by CPS. In one case, the suspect approached someone who was waiting in line for food, displayed a gun and said "you know what time it is," police said. © 1998 - 2021 Nexstar Inc. | All Rights Reserved. EXCLUSIVE: Why the Lincoln Park High School administrators were fired, Chicago bars, restaurants officially cleared to reopen for indoor service: ‘It feels good to be back’. Nobody is buying it. Lincoln has a variety of activities including Academic Decathlon, Debate, One Act Play, The Wall Of Sound Marching Band, and a variety of sports. Here's how it unfolded. Contributing: Tom Schuba, Lauren Fitzpatrick. 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