Jan 31 Jackson Potter will speak on Arne Duncan’s plan to use standardized tests nationwide for both teacher and school evaluations.
Potter was a teacher at Englewood High School before they closed it down. He is opposed to many – or most – of Duncan’s policies, as well as what he views as an ineffective [...]
Last Year We Stopped 6 School Closings. This Year, Help Us Stop Them All!
Educational Summit at Malcolm X College – 1900 W. Van Buren – January 9th, 2010 10 AM-1 PM
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Last January, history was made when over 500 parents, students, and activists turned out at Malcolm X College to protest Renaissance 2010 and Chicago’s turnaround school policy. Shortly after, CPS changed their mind on 6 schools that were slated for closing. Unfortunately, since 2004 over 70 CPS sch0ols have been closed and over 10 percent [...]
Last month, a panel consisting of CORE co-chairs Jackson Potter and Karen Lewis, along with steering committee member Norine Gutenkanst, explained to Progressive Democrats of America what was going on with public education in America.
CORE spoke to the extrememly receptive crowd of like-minded progressives. The panel was moderated by retired teacher Arlene Gloria Hirsch. PDA [...]
Arne Duncan was in town yesterday as the guest of honor for the Advance Illinois morning reception. Duncan was on hand to discuss his initiatives while CEO of the Chicago Public Schools as he plans to unleash them on the nation, using stimulus money to strongarm states into buying into the “miracle.”
From The Associated [...]
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 neighborhood [...]
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 down [...]
Message from CORE Steering Committee Member and Elementary Teacher Norine Gutekanst:
An urgent alert has gone out to supporters of bilingual/ESL and early childhood education to go to Springfield on Wed. & Thurs. June 17 and 18. IAMME (Illinois Association for Multilingual Multicultural Education) is asking for people to testify at the Illinois State Board of [...]
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 [...]
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 a [...]
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