5:00-7:00 PM
Operation PUSH
930 East 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
Operation PUSH
930 East 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
CORE Meeting Monday, July 26th
5:00-7:00 PM
Operation PUSH
930 East 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
Will your neighborhood school be next on the Board of Education’s chopping block?
The Board has already…
…and plans to:
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

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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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.
Meet up with CORE at the ride. Contact CORE Co-Chair Jackson Potter jpottery2002@yahoo.com
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.”
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