Category Archives: Union Busting

CORE High School Functional VP Candidate Sean (Xian) Barrett at Operation PUSH

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 [...]

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CORE Storms the Board Again…News at 10

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 [...]

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CORE and GEM Take it to City Council

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 [...]

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CPS Games System to Increase Charters

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 over last [...]

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