CORE Meeting Monday, July 26th
5:00-7:00 PM
5:00-7:00 PM
Operation PUSH
930 East 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
Come and make your voice heard!
published at 6:14 pm
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
AFT’s Chicago Contingent (Local 1) Work with NYC Local at AFT Conference
published at 7:29 pm
Monday, July 19, 2010
CORE Meeting-Monday July 26th
CORE Meeting Monday, July 26th
5:00-7:00 PM
Operation PUSH
930 East 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
published at 7:28 pm
Monday, July 19, 2010
Save Our Schools Summit-This Saturday (7/24)
Will your neighborhood school be next on the Board of Education’s chopping block?
The Board has already…
- ELIMINATED after-school and sports programs,
- CUT over 200 citywide teachers (special services, literacy coaches, hospital teachers, and more),
- REDUCED world language classes,
…and plans to:
- INCREASE high school class sizes,
- DECREASE the number of electives offered to our students, and
- FIRE more teachers in addition to the hundreds already terminated or displaced WITHOUT regard to seniority and tenure
The Board hasn’t learned its lesson yet.
Let’s plan how we will fight these cuts together.
The Chicago Teachers Union and community partners invite you to the
Save Our Schools Summit
Saturday, July 24, 2010
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ariel Community Academy
1119 East 46th Street
(parking in school lot)
For more information, please contact Norine Gutekanst at
(312) 329-6226 or norinegutekanst@ctulocal1.com
published at 9:23 am
Saturday, July 3, 2010
“Honorably Terminated” Teachers Organize!
Report by John Kugler
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On Tuesday, June 29th, Operation PUSH hosted a meeting for CPS literacy coaches, IDS coaches, and other citywide staff who have been terminated by CPS. Appropriately 100 of these tenured teachers were denied placement in the reassignment pool because of their citywide status.
I assisted these teachers through the grievance process and submitted their paperwork on June 30th. We are also looking to file lawsuits in several areas depending on the specific circumstances of each termination. We are working with several attorneys. Another meeting will be held next Tuesday, July 6th at 6:00 PM at PUSH Headquarters. If you were honorably terminated, please attend. Rainbow PUSH National Headquarters 930 E. 50th St., Chicago
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published at 6:38 pm
Monday, June 28, 2010
Organizing Meetings for Displaced and Honorably Discharged Teachers
published at 1:32 pm
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
CORE to ride in this Friday’s Critical Mass
Critical Mass is a bike ride plain and simple. The ride takes place on the Last Friday Of Every Month. A Critical Mass is created when the group of riders comes together for those few hours to take back the streets of our city. The right of the people to assemble is guaranteed in the Constitution, and Critical Mass helps people remember that right.
Next Ride: 5:30pm Friday, June 25 and will start at Daley Plaza, Dearborn & Washington. The ride is free, just show up with your bike.
Meet up with CORE at the ride. Contact CORE Co-Chair Jackson Potter jpottery2002@yahoo.com
published at 1:23 pm
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
CORE Meetings Coming Up…
published at 5:24 pm
Sunday, June 20, 2010
President-Elect Karen Lewis takes aim at mayoral control and Renaissance 2010
From The Chicago Sun-Times:
…[A]s teachers union president, [Karen Lewis] is aiming for the top once again — right for Daley. She has her sights set on the mayor’s piggy bank of tax increment financing funds. She calls his pet education project, Renaissance 2010, “a disaster.”
“He’s had 15 years of reform…”
“All we ever hear about is how terrible the schools are. … People want to blame the teachers, but the person we should be blaming is Mayor Daley.”
Mayoral control of schools, Lewis says, is “an abomination. It’s made things worse. We’re going backwards in time. Mayoral control is a failed experiment.”
published at 5:55 pm
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Summer of Organizing
Dear Members:
In these final days of the school year, make a list of phone numbers and e-mail addresses of teachers at your school. Talk to your students’ parents and get their contact information as well. We need your help in organizing this summer. Download the spreadsheet at the bottom of this post and e-mail it to coreteachers@gmail.com.
In an emergency meeting on Tuesday, the Board of Education voted unanimously to give CEO Ron Huberman the authority to fire tenured and non-tenured teachers and increase class sizes to 35 students per class.
The Board will work overtime this summer to ensure their demands are met. They assume that teachers, PSRPs, parents, and students will be “on vacation.” The last thing the board wants us to do is to continue organizing.
The Union will contact all stakeholders to fight the layoffs and ballooning class sizes.
In Solidarity,
President-Elect Karen Lewis