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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
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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 [...]
This school year started with staff cuts, overcrowding, flippant schedule changes, and students crossing into new neighborhoods. As stakeholders in the Chicago Schools, none of this is new. The media turned its attention to Chicago in the wake of the death of Derrion Albert. The media, local and national beckoned for some answers as to [...]
Xian Barrett, CORE member and recently-named National Teaching Fellow represented rank-and-file teachers at a panel discussion held Sunday, August 30th, 2009 at All Saints Church (1757 W. Wilson Avenue).
The Panel Included State Representative Greg Harris (D-13th), State Senator Heather Steans (D-7th), Robin Steans (Advance Illinois), and Larry Joseph (who heads the Budget & Tax Policy [...]
Remember the January Board of Education Meeting?
GEM mobilized this massive protest against the Chicago Board of Education to end Renaissance 2010. For the first time, 6 schools were saved from phase-out, consolidation, turnaround, and closing.
The struggle is not over. The Board has just voted to push out Pulaski Fine Arts Academy from its own building, [...]
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CORE Communications Committee member Dave Vance produced this wonderful video for Labor Beat covering June’s CORE protest of the Arne Duncan/Advance Illinois Protest.
Introduction from Labor Beat:
Before President Obama appointed Arne Duncan Secretary of Education, Duncan was the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools. Under his control there, Chicago Public Schools endured a [...]
On Wednesday, the CORE played a key role at the Board of Education Hearing, citing staff cuts, high-stakes testing, and the “20 Day Rule” as being major impediments to education in the city of Chicago. The day began with a CORE press conference at the Board of Ed 125 S. Clark.
After the press conference, CORE [...]
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