Category Archives: News

CORE General meeting today 5-7pm

At Décima Musa 1901 S. Loomis

CORE Meeting Monday Aug 16 @ 5pm

CORE Meeting Monday, August 16th 5:00-7:00 PM Casa Aztlán 1831 South Racine Street Chicago, IL 60608

PACT Settles Lawsuit With Board

PACT’s efforts in Lynch v. Huberman to lift CPS’s ban on campaigning in schools were essential to CORE’s ultimate victory. With a settlement of the lawsuit pending, CORE takes a moment to thank PACT for their efforts.

AFT’s Chicago Contingent (Local 1) Work with NYC Local at AFT Conference

Click here to read the rest of the story from GEM-NYC’s Norm Scott.

CORE Meeting-Monday July 26th

CORE Meeting Monday, July 26th 5:00-7:00 PM Operation PUSH 930 East 50th Street Chicago, IL 60615

“Honorably Terminated” Teachers Organize!

Report by John Kugler On Tuesday, June 29th, Operation PUSH hosted a meeting for CPS literacy coaches, IDS coaches, and other citywide staff who have been terminated by CPS. Appropriately 100 of these  tenured teachers were denied placement in the reassignment pool because of their citywide status. I assisted these teachers through the grievance process [...]

Organizing Meetings for Displaced and Honorably Discharged Teachers

When: Tuesdays 6 PM Where: Operation PUSH 930 E. 50th St, Chicago.

CORE to ride in this Friday’s Critical Mass

From chicagocriticalmass.org: Critical Mass is a bike ride plain and simple. The ride takes place on the Last Friday Of Every Month. A Critical Mass is created when the group of riders comes together for those few hours to take back the streets of our city. The right of the people to assemble is guaranteed [...]

CORE Meetings Coming Up…

Manny’s Deli 1141 S. Jefferson June 28th and July 13th 4:00 PM

Summer of Organizing

Dear Members: In these final days of the school year, make a list of phone numbers and e-mail addresses of teachers at your school. Talk to your students’ parents and get their contact information as well. We need your help in organizing this summer. Download the spreadsheet at the bottom of this post and e-mail [...]