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District postpones parent meeting on bargaining
By: Rebecca Harris / June 20, 2012
CPS has postponed a Monday night meeting that was to inform parents about the status of district negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union.
CPS spokeswoman Robyn Ziegler said Wednesday morning the district would reschedule the meeting after a three-member fact-finding panel issues a recommended settlement in mid-July – probably for sometime in August.
Ziegler said the meeting is being moved because there’s a limited amount of information CPS can give parents at this stage in the process.
“We had received a lot of positive feedback, and [parents] were very interested, but it was clear there was a lot of information we couldn’t provide,” Ziegler said. “We didn’t want to create a situation that was more frustrating than helpful.”
The parent group Raise Your Hand has also held town hall meetings to talk with parents about the issues between CPS and CTU. Stand for Children, which had previously urged CTU not to move forward with a strike-authorization vote, has also scheduled one meeting for Thursday night and another on Monday, the same night CPS had originally planned its parent meeting.
So, with Stand for Children
So, with Stand for Children leading these community meetings, they can now bash the CTU in ways CPS never could. Unless of course enough people who understand the issues come out to set the record straight. More importantly, people need to change the narrative--get back to talking about the Schools Chicago's Students Deserve.
More Questions Than Answers
Fascinating. First, what did "Jean-Claude" think a meeting at the end of June could accomplish? I'm sure he thought he could schmooze the parents who showed up, but really, how many would that have been?
Second, who talked him out of this dopey idea? No one thinks more of Jean-Claude Brizard than Jean-Claude Brizard, and he thinks he can sell sno-cones to the Inuit, but someone finally got through to him on this. In the words of Arte Johnson, "verrry interesting."
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