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 [...]
CORE: Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators
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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 over last [...]
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