HUMBOLDT PARK — ChiArts students, parents and teachers are shocked and upset about the school board’s decision not to renew its contract with Chicago Public Schools due to financial strain, putting the school’s future in limbo.

The news, announced last week, has created uncertainty among teachers, parents and students at Chicago High School for the Arts, who hope CPS can save Chicago’s only arts-focused public high school from potentially closing.

The board’s decision opens up old wounds for Rousemary Vega, a ChiArts parent whose daughter is a freshman studying acting. Vega, of Humboldt Park, was a vocal critic of CPS closing Lafayette Elementary in 2013, the building at 2714 W. Augusta Blvd. now occupied by ChiArts.

“I got a call from my daughter, hysterically crying, saying they [migh

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