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A.J. Davis, 16, is a student at Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville on the South Side. In Feb. 2022, right after classes ended for the day, Davis’ 15-year-old friend Michael Brown was shot to death less than two blocks from their school. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times
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A.J. Davis, 16, is a student at Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville on the South Side. In Feb. 2022, right after classes ended for the day, Davis’ 15-year-old friend Michael Brown was shot to death less than two blocks from their school. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times

In 2022, Chicago Public Schools saw 41 after-school shooting incidents near schools involving children 19 years old and younger. And in the last decade, there was an average of three murders of kids under 17 each year, a WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times analysis found.

And calls are growing louder for city officials and the district to take action.

Reset finds out more on what’s behind the spike in shootings near CPS schools and learns about potential solutions.

GUESTS: Sarah Karp, WBEZ education reporterNader Issa, Chicago Sun-Times reporter

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A.J. Davis, 16, is a student at Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville on the South Side. In Feb. 2022, right after classes ended for the day, Davis’ 15-year-old friend Michael Brown was shot to death less than two blocks from their school. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times
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A.J. Davis, 16, is a student at Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville on the South Side. In Feb. 2022, right after classes ended for the day, Davis’ 15-year-old friend Michael Brown was shot to death less than two blocks from their school. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times

In 2022, Chicago Public Schools saw 41 after-school shooting incidents near schools involving children 19 years old and younger. And in the last decade, there was an average of three murders of kids under 17 each year, a WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times analysis found.

And calls are growing louder for city officials and the district to take action.

Reset finds out more on what’s behind the spike in shootings near CPS schools and learns about potential solutions.

GUESTS: Sarah Karp, WBEZ education reporterNader Issa, Chicago Sun-Times reporter