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Press Release: Board of Education Hides School Closing Votes from Community

Thursday, February 25, 2010 – 6:08 pm

Today eight Chicago Public Schools were closed or “turned around” by a secret Board of Education vote. Abandoning past practice, the Board did not have a public roll call vote. Mary Richardson-Lowry, the new Board President, simply ordered to “record the last positive vote,” not even mentioning the schools by name, but referred coldly to [...]

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Pension Recount Increases CORE Victory

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 – 4:55 pm

Close elections seem to breed recounts, so it was no surprise when pension board incumbent Nancy Williams (UPC) demanded a recount after the first pension election results showed her losing to Lois Ashford (CORE) by 43 votes for the final teacher trustee spot.   The other pension board vacancy was also won by CORE with Jay [...]

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