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 [...]
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 [...]
There will be a strategy meeting to stop school closings at Operation Push this Saturday.
When: Saturday, February 6th, 12 noon
Where: 2nd floor Conference Room, Operation Push 930 East 50th Street
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