Access Living's critique of the CPS budget... Major budget analysts challenge Board of Education's FY 2017 budget while hundreds protests and dozens speak against Chicago's latest round of school-based cuts....
The August 24, 2016 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education was once again devoted to a delayed approval of the budget for the school system's fiscal year (which began on July 1, 2016), and . . .
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Substance articles delayed because of technical difficulties with the website...
Since August 23, 2016, publishing articles on the Substance website has been impaired because of technical difficulties. Substance staff members have been notified that a queue is being established and that articles will be published . . .
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Chicago Teachers Union confronts the Chicago Board of Education with blistering report outlining the fraud, mismanagement and waste in the Board's many outsourcing programs...
The Chicago Teachers Union issued a blistering report critical of the Chicago Board of Education's massive outsourcing of services to private corporations, briefly speaking about the report at the Board's August 24, 2016 meeting. Board . . .
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Illinois Supreme Court unanimously supports public worker pensions rights... Major defeat for Rauner's 'turnaround' plans and Pat Quinn's duplicity... Court notes that the problem is a 'manufactured crisis'...
The Illinois Supreme Court on May 8, 2015 unanimously upheld teacher and other public worker pension rights under the Illinois Constitution. The ruling was expected but still widely cheered by public workers and the unions. . . .
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PERSEPOLIS WATCH: Chicago doubletalk and craziness on banning the book takes the Persepolis story international as the Guardian (Great Britain) picks it up
While Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proclaims that he doesn't ban books (of course he doesn't; he just closes libraries for many hours and lets his school bureaucrats do the book bannings from the public schools . . .
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