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Articles: Military Recruiting: Student Privacy

CPS may limit military recruiters

Kate N. Grossman, Sun Times

November 7, 2007

The Chicago Public Schools plan for the first time to restrict
military recruiters who visit schools, including limiting access to
students and banning gifts.

The Board of Education is expected to vote on its new policy for
recruiters -- covering the military, colleges and prospective
employers -- Nov. 14. Advocates had complained the military
aggressively recruits CPS students.

CPS has the largest JROTC program in the country, and the 2002 No
Child Left Behind Law and state law gives recruiters access to
student names, addresses and numbers. Students can opt out by signing
a form that will be available to parents at high school report card
pick-up day today.

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