By: This UNO school is already open

why a hearing?

Gage Park: Wednesday, Sept. 23rd | 6:00pm to 7:00pm | Rufino Tamayo School | 5135 S. California Ave.

This school is already open for at least 2 years now.

By: George N. Schmidt

UNO turf for UNO plans... UNO

Tomorrow's hearing is not about Rufino Tamayo -- it's about the rest of the Southwest Side, which is now on UNO's target. If you teach in a real public school from Gage Park and Kelly all the way out to Curie and across all the elementary schools CPS has allowed to remain overcrowded, you are now being targeted for UNOization, with the CPS Office of New Schools aiding and abetting (as they have for a half dozen years and gotten away with it).

The hearing is at Rufino Tamayo (as opposed to the dozen public schools that are being targeted by UNO) so that UNO can control as much of the meeting as possible. UNO will be packing the "hearing" with their loyalists as necessary. UNO will speak first. UNO will be praised by Ron Huberman's flunkies from "New Schools." And UNO will then go out and declare -- with Huberman's backing -- the "the people" want more UNO schools.

That's the script. They've been running it for years, and have been successful.

Didn't you wonder why the "Office of New Schools" never sites these "hearings" at the schools that are being screwed? The "hearings" are to create a paper record on behalf of the done deals that "New Schools" has already been cutting. And they want to make sure things don't get out of hand. Even doing the hearing on De La Cruz at St. Augustine got out of UNO/New Schools control, so this time they're holding a "public schools" hearing in the least public facility possible. Why not Gage Park High School, or Kelly High School?

Does UNO really want to let the people at Gage Park and Kelly know that they plan to steal the "best" kids (and only the "best") from those two schools next, with their officially sanctioned expansions? So... It's going to be launched from Rufino Tamayo. UNO turf.

The hearing is to lay the groundwork for more UNO expansion across the Southwest Side. Watch for a move against Gage Park High School (to "relieve overcrowding") for example, or against any of a half dozen elementary schools as far out as Peck.

The hearing is at Rufino Tamayo so that UNO can control as much of it as possible to push their expansion plans. Like the August 21 hearing at St. Augustine, they will pack the meeting and sing their own praises. People from "New Schools", led once again by Jaime Guzman (who led the UNO cheerleaders at St. Augustine) will once again present about how wonderful UNO is.

Heck, if things really get interesting, you'll probably hear from "Sister Barbara" again about how she went from working at the Office of New School to working for UNO because of how great the "relationship" was.

In that relationship, everyone knows who's getting paid and who's getting screwed. The difference this year is that more of those who've been getting screwed know what the plans are and have gotten organized.

So...

Remember: The show tomorrow night is not about Rufino Tamayo School (5135 S. California Ave.) UNO school.

It's about the next moves in the UNO colonization of the Southwest Side with non-union charter scab schools. No doubt they'll also have every UNO teacher working involuntary unpaid overtime to bring out as many concerned parents and children to add to the background photographs.

By: Education Is Job 1. On What Planet?

Priorities Are Strange In Chicago

Ron Magers of ABC 7 News in Chicago announced this afternoon that his station will start broadcasting about 1 AM the morning of October 2 when the Olympics vote in Copenhagen will take place. They will go wall to wall.

Let’s count how many reporters will cover the Ren 2010 community forums. None of the media will even acknowledge receipt of information about the tyrannical principals that beleaguered teachers keep sending them. We all know that education is a low priority for Mayor Daley. All he’s concerned about is whether he can get his unusual statements published about the schools. Read the September 23 article in the Sun Times:

“Despite a federal investigation of alleged clout admissions at Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Daley on Wednesday defended the controversial process that has allowed principals at nine elite public high schools to handpick five percent of their students.”

Concern for teachers never even makes it on to his radar. We should have all learned how to shot put.

By: Zeta

Begin Ren 2010 Again

In an effort to rid Chicago of minorities, radical whites and the poor, Chicago has become a model for the nation to show other mayors in large urban cities how to continue to disenfranchise the masses and "Take our Country Back'. This philosophy is similar to the Klu Klux Klan , the skin heads and Hitler's. Mayor Daley has found a nice and acceptable manner to promote this sick agenda. "it's called REN 2010. REN 2010 is an effort to restore large major cities to the "upper class". So the first thing Mayor Daley did when he became Mayor was to take control of the School Board. Then he started with Harper High School. He restructured Harper and was sued. (at that time CTU was functioning somewhat). After he lost that battle he revamped and came back in 2002, and closed Terrell, Williams and Dodge. He got a few unsuspecting African American leaders from the Urban League and Black churches with huge congregations to support him. He hit the jackpot! Debbie Lynch was the head of CTU, we lost much in the CTU contract that would have protected us from this process. The ball was rolling. Success at Williams, Terrell and Dodge escalated from School closings to land grabs. Simultaneously, the projects were being torn down. That would cause low enrollment in the surrounding schools. (at that time you could close schools only for low enrollment and low scores.) When the enrollment dropped other schools closed. This spread like wildfire.

When the poor blacks were left without housing, they were relocated to middle class AA communities where they began to destabilize and terrorize middle class African American communities. AHA! Many Middle class Blacks began to flee, many leaving the city. ( great for Mayor Daley since blacks did not put him in office)" The

big Payback". Since Mayor Daley has trained Huberman how to take a large urban city back and give it back to the yuppies and a handful of buppies, Mayor Daley goes on the road to train other mayors and Arne Duncan goes to the White House, ('Wake Up Obama!) This is the plan to sweep the nation, (It's a national Rosewood situation with African Americans and those who like them, loosing everything and being returned to lives of poverty once again.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre. From Mayor Daley to Arne Duncan and the White House, what a perfect plan. Now don't forget Huberman who is being groomed to be the next Mayor so Daley can continue to run this segregated city until his demise! First Chicago, next other urban cities and then the entire country, its REN 2010 ONCE AGAIN.

By: Miguel Rodriguez

Sister Barbara Mccarry is Corrupt

The Roman Catholic Church should stick with the word of Christ and stay away from organizations like UNO. Juan Rangel is a self serving power hungry politician interested in himself only. If that means the Hispanic community suffers, its OK with him.

Sister Barbara is not playing poker with a full deck.

UNO sucks.

By: confessionn time

ironic

Funny how the Catholic Church will let UNO pay $$$ for rent, but under the director of UNO would not be allowed to participate in the eucharist. Plus the $$$ Rangel takes away form the children to pay his own salary--more than Huberman!