Category Archives: Outreach

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 [...]

Topics: Alerts / Legal Action / Outreach
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 [...]

Topics: Alerts / Legal Action / Outreach
published at 4:25 pm Thursday, June 11, 2009

CORE Supports Teachers at Prescott Elementary

On Tuesday, June 19th, CORE came out to support the teachers at Prescott Elementary School (1632 W. Wrightwood Ave.) in their demonstration against principal Erin Roche. Background Details Can Be Found Here.

Topics: Outreach
published at 9:36 am Saturday, June 6, 2009

CORE Twitter Featured on District 299, Begins Dialogue on House of Delegates

The Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates is the supreme decision-making body of the CTU. However, this has been a record year in the erosion of the power of that body.  Over the course of the 2008-2009 school year the membership of the CTU has witnessed so many cancellations, preemptions, and early adjournments that a [...]

Topics: Outreach
published at 6:21 pm Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Funky Buddha Lounge Event Keeps Educators Spirits High During Tough Times

CORE’s May 16th fundraiser took place at the Funky Buddha Lounge. Around 150 people were in attendance. The evening began with the acoustic stylings of local favorite singer/guitarist Rich Cantu. Afterwords, The crowd was given a brief history of CORE and what the caucus is currently doing to change the CTU into a union that [...]

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published at 8:52 am Sunday, May 10, 2009

CORE Represents at Labor Notes Conference

CORE members were highly visible at Saturday May 9th’s “Troublemakers School” hosted by Labor Notes and Malcom X. College. CORE members participated in workshops where they learned:  how to prepare effective grievances for possible arbitration, fighting back in the public sector, and organizing and bargaining during an economic crisis among other topics crucial for fighting [...]

Topics: Events / Meetings / Outreach
published at 12:00 pm Tuesday, October 7, 2008

End standardized tests

Join our campaign to end standardized tests by circulating this petition for students, teachers and parents. Download the petition: MS Word DOC (40 KB) Zipped MS Word DOC (8 KB)

Topics: Outreach
published at 4:29 am Thursday, September 11, 2008

Download our pamphlet

For more information about the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, dowload this PDF pamphlet (288 KB).

Topics: CORE Stuff / Outreach Tags: ,
published at 7:22 pm Friday, August 22, 2008

August Meeting

Our first meeting of this school year should be a good one, we’ll hear report backs from the House of Delegates, Advocacy, Communication, Rules and Outreach Committees. Where: 1805 S. Loomis Rudy Lozano Library in the Auditorium When: Wednesday August 27th @ 4:00pm We’ll discuss Class Size, Oct. 6th Day of Action against testing, our [...]

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