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PROTEST REN2010

Monday, February 9, 2009 – 6:39 am

Stop Renaissance 2010 Check out CORE member Al Ramirez’s new video on the protests against Ren 2010 this past Wednesday, January 28th. Also view Labor Beat’s coverage of the January 28th protest. CORE and the Grassroots Education Movement helped organize the event, we are calling for a moratorium on Renaissance 2010. Labor Beat’s coverage of [...]

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Teachers demand turnaround moratorium (via Chi-Town Daily News)

Sunday, December 21, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Groups representing teachers and parents of Chicago Public Schools students appeared yesterday at a Board of Education meeting to protest the district's approach to turning around troubled schools. Read more: Teachers demand turnaround moratorium | Chicago News, Events and Culture | Chi-Town Daily News.

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Charter schools Obama praised ripped at board meeting (via Chicago Sun-Times

Sunday, December 21, 2008 – 11:59 am

A parade of teachers, parents and students complained Wednesday about the new breed of Chicago schools President-elect Barack Obama touted the day before when he tapped Chicago’s school chief to be his U.S. secretary of education. Read more: Charter schools Obama praised ripped at board meeting.

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Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling (via truthout.org)

Thursday, December 18, 2008 – 12:00 pm

President-elect Barack Obama with his nominee for secretary of education, Arne Duncan. (Photo: Reuters) Since the 1980s, but particularly under the Bush administration, certain elements of the religious right, corporate culture and Republican right wing have argued that free public education represents either a massive fraud or a contemptuous failure. Far from a genuine call [...]

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Renaissance 2010 Strikes Again

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Renaissance 2010 Strikes Again from jackson potter on Vimeo.

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End standardized tests

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Join our campaign to end standardized tests by circulating this petition for students, teachers and parents. Download the petition: MS Word DOC (40 KB) Zipped MS Word DOC (8 KB)

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Download our pamphlet

Thursday, September 11, 2008 – 4:29 am

For more information about the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, dowload this PDF pamphlet (288 KB).

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August Meeting

Friday, August 22, 2008 – 7:22 pm

Our first meeting of this school year should be a good one, we’ll hear report backs from the House of Delegates, Advocacy, Communication, Rules and Outreach Committees. Where: 1805 S. Loomis Rudy Lozano Library in the Auditorium When: Wednesday August 27th @ 4:00pm We’ll discuss Class Size, Oct. 6th Day of Action against testing, our [...]

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