Morgan Park Big on Foreign Affairs

Morgan Park students and alumni know no borders. No hurdle istoo high and not even the sky is the limit.

Not that they don't know their geography. To the contrary,international boundaries are Morgan Park's forte. They can evenreach out and touch the stars.

Morgan Park alumna Mae Jemison set the standard, becoming thefirst African-American woman in space when she rode in the spaceshuttle a couple of years ago.

But since 1987, Morgan Park students have been to Spain, France,Austria and Israel as part of the school's Foreign Languages andInternational Studies program.

The program began in 1982 as part of the Chicago Board ofEducation's Options for …