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In the News: CPS denied access to CTU vote materials
By: Cassandra West / June 08, 2012
The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board Thursday denied a Chicago School Board request for an emergency order that would have forced the Chicago Teachers Union to preserve material from the vote and allow the board and the district access to it.
Teachers at three of Chicago’s community-based Head Start programs have voted to unionize this year with the Service Employees International Union. (Catalyst)
WBEZ reports that GED adult education programs are less available on the city's South and West Sides, where the need is greatest.
During WBEZ's monthly call-in program, "Schools on the Line," CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard fielded questions on field trips, the school district's promotion policy, and negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union.
At the opening of the annual Clinton Global Initiative conference in Chicago Thursday, J.B. Pritzker, the venture capitalist and Hyatt Hotels owner, announced that he and his wife have donated $1 million in seed capital to start an early-childhood education initiative. (Sun-Times)
IN THE NATION
Opinion: "The de-professionalization of teaching" in Indiana. (Journal Gazette)
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey finds 1 in 3 students texts while driving. (Education Week)
A study suggests competition from the non-district sponsored charters had a significantly positive effect on student achievement in neighboring public schools. The gains were evident among low-achieving students, and African-American students, in particular. (Education Week)
A teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts gave his address to the Class of 2012 and blasted the students, telling them over and over, “You’re not special.” But there was more to his message. The Washington Post has the full speech.
CTU gets 90% on vote
Word.
CTU votes 90%
Word.
Da SHAFT
Looks like chicago teachers just gave Rahm "DA SHAFT!"
ninety!!!
In other words:
90% want just compensation
90% don’t approve of Brizzard (hmmm sounds like Rochester)
90% don’t like being pushed around by Rambo
90% are sick of random and bizarre testing
90% are sick of The Firm (aka the area offices)
90% are sick of the Dark Star (aka the Board)
90% want to get back to teaching
90% want to “stand for children” and not just use the name Stand for Children!!!
If we really got 90%, that means about 22k teachers. How can CPS claim all these teachers are incompetent??? I believe 22k teachers are much more in tune than a handful of area officers and board members and their leader Rahm E!!!
However, I am sure the opld board still has some tricks up their sleeves!!
However, I am sure the opld board still has some tricks up their
I agree, so BRING IT!!!!!
STRIKE!!
Where are you Rambo??? Not a peep out of you. You can't insult us anymore with 4 letter words and proclamations. How many times can you repeat over and over again"It's for the good of the children of Chicago"? What a line of crap! I was told by a Special Council to the Department of Education in D.C. that you were coming here to "break the union" that you "hated unions" well, let's see who breaks. If you ignore the 22k strong than that will NOT be for the good of the children of Chicago.
NO to Rahm/CEO CPS Business Plan (It ain't about education)
The Ren 2010 part 2 is a continuation of a business plan of the 1% and not an education plan. It never was. Setting up 100 neighborhood schools for closing and having no real plan on how to authentically support community's of learning with what they really need is criminal. Redlining, Jim Crow, Apartheid is in effect! Recent study by CReATE on where the TIF funding is going, and it is not where the most needy kids reside. It is criminal to starve these schools of needed support and then give a our TAX MONEY to support these slacker private companies that offer only drill and kill curriculum and failing at that!
Hedge fund operators are offering two digit returns on investments in charter operators. So, the fix is in and Rahm will let children get the shaft!
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