CORE: The Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators
Press Statement: CPS School Grade Changes
March 10, 2010
CPS Dysfunction, not Teachers, to Blame for Grade Changes
“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 [...]
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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 WBBM, Feb 25, [...]
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 about [...]
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 [...]
By Jim Vail
February 24, 2010
The Chicago Board of Education members voted to destroy eight Chicago public schools after massive community outrage forced schools chief Ron Huberman to take six schools off the list to be closed, consolidated, phased out or face turnaround.
“This is a sad day for public education,” said Alderman Pat Dowell, who sponsored [...]
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 [...]
Call your alderman and tell them to support the School Closings Moratorium.
Aldermen Lyle and Dowell have co-sponsored a city council resolution that would place a moratorium of at least one year on current and future school closings, consolidations, turnaround, and phase outs until a comprehensive strategy of transparency, community involvement, and public accountability can be [...]
From WBEZ:
Public testimony from thousands of parents and teachers has school officials reconsidering their original plans to close, consolidate or re-staff 14 schools.
[CPS Chief Administrative Officer]: We’ve considered community input and other information that we’ve gathered through the public hearing process, and we are strongly considering modifying the proposals that we submitted. And this is [...]
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