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 and [...]
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 and CYIC’s [...]
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. It [...]
CORE Speaks Out
The above link will lead you to a new video on blip.tv showing several CORE members and other community members speaking out against the news wave of school closings. Particularly highlighted is CORE’s Presidential Candidate Karen Lewis, who shows herself to be a powerful and well-informed speaker on several occasions throughout the video.
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January 27, 2010
CORE attended another monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting to support the school communities devastated by the announcement of their schools being closed, phased-out, consolidated, or turned-around.
CORE Candidate for Financial Secretary, Kristine Mayle, spoke out against the 15 years of educational experiments made possible by mayoral control of Chicago’s schools.
From Chicago Breaking News:
Teachers [...]
CORE announced our slate for the May 2010 Union Officer Election at the Educational Summit at Malcolm X College on January 9th, 2010. Our candidates were voted in by CORE membership on January 6th, 2010. CORE believes that we’re living in a new time where the board flippantly closes schools and destroys careers with no [...]
CORE: Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators
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November 22, 2009 9 p.m.
Contract-to-Charter Conversion Reveals
CPS Circumvention of State Law
Number of Charter Seats Requested on 11/23/09 Almost Doubles Last Year’s Total
CHICAGO – On November 23, 2009, CPS is asking the Chicago Board of Education to nearly double the number of charter seats over last [...]
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