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Laboratory Schools community mobilizes to support Hyde Park Refugee Project

Lisa La Vallee | Published on 5/31/2017

The Spring 2017 issue of Lab Life, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools magazine, explains how Lab teachers, parents, staff and students galvanized to help HPRP bring two Syrian families to Hyde Park.


“I think that we have a sense that we are very privileged in our lives and in our school community, and we want to help others also do well in life. It feels good to be in a community of people who feel we can be agents of change.” – Linda Weide, Grade 4 Laboratory Schools teacher


Click here> to read the full story by Megan E. Doherty and scroll to page 18.