Category Archives: Alerts

published at 8:31 pm Monday, February 22, 2010

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. [...]

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published at 11:43 pm Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Educational Summit at Malcolm X College

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 CORE will announce slate – RSVP on Facebook

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published at 3:09 pm Sunday, November 15, 2009

CORE Extends Condolences to the Family of Michael Scott, CBOE President

In response to the tragic news of Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott’s death, the co-chairs of the Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators (CORE), whose members have testified at each Board of Education monthly meeting for the past 18 months, often engaging Mr. Scott in a dialogue on improving Chicago’s schools, issued the following statement. [...]

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published at 7:33 am Monday, August 17, 2009

CPS Budget Hearings

So you were fortunate enough to get your hands on the copy of the proposed 2009-2010 CPS Budget. You were one of a proud few as this has been one of the most hidden budgets in CPS history. The budget may prompt you to ask questions like, Why is Ron Huberman blaming teacher pensions for [...]

Topics: Alerts / Events
published at 4:19 pm Thursday, June 18, 2009

Truthout.org on the EEOC Complaint

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 [...]

Topics: Alerts / Legal Action / Outreach
published at 6:26 pm Wednesday, June 17, 2009

More News on EEOC Complaint

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 [...]

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published at 8:59 am Saturday, June 13, 2009

CORE’s EEOC Complaint in the News

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 [...]

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published at 4:27 pm Thursday, June 11, 2009

CORE Files Discrimination Charges Against Board of Education

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 [...]

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published at 11:13 am Monday, June 8, 2009

CORE to Discuss School Closings with the Progressive Democrats of America Tonight

Chicago Public Schools Closings: The REAL Story The Progressive Democrats of America welcome CORE members Norine Gutekanst, Karen Lewis and Jackson Potter to their June meeting to discuss Renaissance 2010. When: Monday, June 8, 2009 Time: 7 pm, meeting, (6:30 pm, socialize) Where: Brehon’s Pub, 731 N. Wells, Chicago (Corner Superior and Wells)

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published at 11:09 am Monday, June 8, 2009

CORE’s Ongoing Campaign Against the “20 Day Rule”

CORE is organizing a campaign against the “20-Day Rule” that has been implemented for years in the Chicago Public Schools. The rule allows schools to open or close positions as late as the twentieth day of the school year. Many students are left without a teacher for the first weeks of school while some teachers [...]

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