Category Archives: Legal Action

published at 4:19 pm Thursday, June 18, 2009

Truthout.org on the EEOC Complaint

From Truthout.org Public-private partnerships between Chicago’s City Hall, where two men named Richard Daley have ruled more than 40 of the last 55 years, and a gaggle of corporate bagmen from the Gates, Bradley, Walton and other foundations have honed a disastrous “education reform” agenda that is now national policy. In Chicago, where dozens of [...]

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published at 6:26 pm Wednesday, June 17, 2009

More News on EEOC Complaint

Journalist Bruce A. Dixon chronicles CORE’s EEOC Complaint on Black Agenda Report and Common Dreams.org: In May, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan declared [1] the Obama administration’s intent to close and “turn around” 5,000 ‘underperforming” public schools in poorer neighborhoods across the country. Duncan’s last job was CEO of Chicago’s public schools where he shut [...]

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published at 8:59 am Saturday, June 13, 2009

CORE’s EEOC Complaint in the News

From Chicago Public Radio’s City Room: The District [CPS] has come to rely on the turn around method to fix failing schools. The turn around calls for the entire school staff to be laid off and new replacement teachers hired. CORE member and teacher, Lois Ashford, explains. ASHFORD: Somehow, we have become the problem for [...]

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published at 4:27 pm Thursday, June 11, 2009

CORE Files Discrimination Charges Against Board of Education

CPS Turnaround Policy Disproportionately Affects African-American Educators Last night, Wednesday, June 10th, the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that school “turnarounds,” a “Renaissance 2010” policy, have a disparate impact on African American teachers. Teachers who filed the charges contend that African American teachers suffer [...]

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