Daily Archives: Wednesday, February 24, 2010

CORE Storms the Board Again…News at 10

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 [...]

CORE Protests Deneen Turnaround

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 [...]