As the first day of school nears for Chicago Public Schools, two movements to improve education for its mostly low-income, minority students are on a collision course.
The Black Star Project and its Million Father March -- a five-year-old movement steamrolling across the country -- are calling for men, especially black men, to take children to school en masse Sept. 2.
But state Sen. James Meeks' Save Our Schools Now campaign wants them to stay away, as he and supporters rally CPS parents toward a massive boycott of CPS' first day of school. Meeks is also pastor of the Far South Side mega-church, Salem Baptist.
"This began as black fathers doing this for black …
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