Monthly Archives: March 2010

published at 10:20 am Monday, March 29, 2010

Teachers and PSRPs Are Free to Campaign for the May 21st Union Election!

CTU MEMBERS REGAIN RIGHTS TO CAMPAIGN INSIDE SCHOOLS; Court Stops Huberman and Board Muzzling Order On Friday, March 26th, 2010, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against the Board of Education’s ban against campaigning in school buildings for the May 21st Union election. The decision prohibits Ron Huberman, CPS and the Board of [...]

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published at 8:45 pm Thursday, March 25, 2010

CORE Co-Chair Jackson Potter on Fox News

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published at 8:10 pm Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Press Release: Chicago Teachers Union Members Muzzled by Huberman

No Official Response from CTU to Members CORE:  The Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators CHICAGO — On March 12, 2010, CPS CEO Ron Huberman sent a memo to all CPS Principals stating that he is “prohibiting the distribution, circulation and exhibition of all union campaign material on school grounds”, including Union members’ mailboxes and a Union [...]

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published at 6:33 pm Wednesday, March 10, 2010

CPS Dysfunction, not Teachers, to Blame for Grade Changes

CORE: The Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators Press Statement: CPS School Grade Changes March 10, 2010 “Today’s grade changing scandal isn’t news to those of us in the trenches, particularly in neighborhood schools. This is the illegitimate child of CPS’s dysfunction. The blame cannot be placed at teachers’ feet,” said Jesse Sharkey, Senn High School teacher [...]

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published at 4:10 pm Sunday, March 7, 2010

Huberman’s $355 Million Lie

A CORE Position Paper The $355 million lie: About this time every year CPS leadership “misplaces” more than $300 million dollars and blames teachers… “…drastic measures, like closing 100 schools, increasing class size to a whopping 45 students and laying off 4,000 teachers would not even cut the deficit by half, Huberman said.” Quoted from [...]

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published at 5:39 pm Tuesday, March 2, 2010

CORE Trustee Candidate Jackson Potter on Huberman’s “Doomsday”

From Catalyst: Huberman says he needs major union concessions to balance the budget this year, and that sets up a scenario in which the district will ask teachers to pick their poison: Agree not to fight pension changes, concede to larger class sizes or give up their 4 percent raises. Eliminating contractual raises would save [...]

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