CORE Files Suit Against the Board of Education for Hiding Budget Numbers SUIT FILED 5/20/10 From The Chicago Tribune: Teacher’s group sues CPS over access May 20, 2010 A union group that is vying for power in Friday’s Chicago Teachers Union election has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Board of Education, claiming it is [...]
Grassroots Education Movement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2010 Student Leaders and GEM to CPS: Name the Names on Contracts. Public Budget Debates Now. No Student or Teacher Cuts. Student leaders and members of GEM, the Grassroots Education Movement, called for Chicago Public Schools to provide line-item budget details and hold immediate public hearings before [...]
No Official Response from CTU to Members CORE: The Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators CHICAGO — On March 12, 2010, CPS CEO Ron Huberman sent a memo to all CPS Principals stating that he is “prohibiting the distribution, circulation and exhibition of all union campaign material on school grounds”, including Union members’ mailboxes and a Union [...]
CORE: Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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 [...]
For Immediate Release June 24, 2009 2:00 p.m. CORE Charges CPS/Chicago Board of Education Policies with Creating Chaos in Schools; CPS/CBOE Agree to include CORE Teachers in Policy-making CHICAGO, IL — At the June 24, 2009 Chicago Board of Education hearing, members of CORE, the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE), repeatedly charged CPS [...]
