published at 11:00 am
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27th, 2010, Sean (Xian) Barrett spoke at Operation Push, asking the audience to support the Chicago Public Schools, even in the wake of the Board’s claims of a budget shortfall that will force major concessions from the CTU and from the students we teach. His marks are reprinted below. Good Morning Rainbow Push [...]
published at 6:26 pm
Thursday, February 25, 2010
By Jim Vail February 24, 2010 The Chicago Board of Education members voted to destroy eight Chicago public schools after massive community outrage forced schools chief Ron Huberman to take six schools off the list to be closed, consolidated, phased out or face turnaround. “This is a sad day for public education,” said Alderman Pat [...]
published at 6:08 pm
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Today eight Chicago Public Schools were closed or “turned around” by a secret Board of Education vote. Abandoning past practice, the Board did not have a public roll call vote. Mary Richardson-Lowry, the new Board President, simply ordered to “record the last positive vote,” not even mentioning the schools by name, but referred coldly to [...]
published at 8:43 pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
CORE at the Board of Education Meeting today… ABC-7 News features CORE candidate for CTU President Karen Lewis, who told the board, “Turnaround is a layoff policy, not an education policy.” CORE Pension Trustee Lois Ashford, “[Turnaround schools] aren’t better…they’re just different.” Click Here to see WGN Channel 9 coverage of CORE treasurer Carol Caref [...]
published at 4:26 pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
An impressive crowd including Deneen students and parents, Jonathan Jackson and some Operation PUSH members, and about a dozen CORE members took to the streets on February 23rd to protest CPS’s plan to turn Deneen school over to AUSL for their turnaround experimentation. AUSL remains the turnover agency of choice in CPS despite new studies [...]
published at 8:31 pm
Monday, February 22, 2010
From PURE: Today’s Education Committee hearing ended up being quite a show! Several aldermen gave scathing accounts of their view of R2010, and Alderman Munoz forced the committee chair to change her mind and hear public testimony from a small representation of the many folks who came out to support the R2010 school closing moratorium. [...]
published at 5:47 pm
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Call your alderman and tell them to support the School Closings Moratorium. Aldermen Lyle and Dowell have co-sponsored a city council resolution that would place a moratorium of at least one year on current and future school closings, consolidations, turnaround, and phase outs until a comprehensive strategy of transparency, community involvement, and public accountability can [...]
published at 8:36 pm
Monday, February 15, 2010
From WBEZ: Public testimony from thousands of parents and teachers has school officials reconsidering their original plans to close, consolidate or re-staff 14 schools. [CPS Chief Administrative Officer]: We’ve considered community input and other information that we’ve gathered through the public hearing process, and we are strongly considering modifying the proposals that we submitted. And [...]
published at 9:55 am
Friday, February 12, 2010
CORE has attended every school closing hearing this year. These hearings have been skillfully chronicled in Substance News. CORE’s candidate for Financial Secretary, Kristine Mayle, and CORE Pension Trustee Lois Ashford at Guggenheim Elementary Hearing
published at 9:37 am
Friday, February 12, 2010
CORE has teamed up with Cafe Press to offer a variety of CORE items suitable for the whole family. Please visit http://www.cafepress.com/COREChicago and browse the inventory. A portion of the proceeds will go to CORE. T-shirts are also available. E-mail coreteachers@gmail.com for details.
