Autism Awareness event at Schurz High School
The Autism Awareness Week event at Schurz High School in Chicago was a success, according to the hundreds of people who attended it. Widespread publicity not only on the Northwest Side but across Chicago helped . . .
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Elimination of CTU pocket calendar irks many current and retired CTU members...
As the 2017 - 2018 school year continues, most members of the Chicago Teachers Union have realized that for the first time in more than half a century the union leadership has eliminated the annual . . .
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Noting that CTU members can't afford to bring in charter school teachers, the 'Members First' group inside the Chicago Teachers Union continues critical review of the CTU leadership's proposed changes in the union's Constitution and By-Laws...
While the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union continues to lobby for a large number of proposed amendments to the union's Constitution and By-Laws, a growing number of union members have been closely examining the . . .
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More than 23,000 Chicago Teachers Union members will be shocked to learn that CTU leaders have cut the union calendar date-book because their 'austerity' budget... Lewis aide suggests retirees forget the date book and get training on the use of their i-Phones to replace the traditional booklet...
The word has begun coming out slowly, as it did on Thursday June 8, 2017, at the monthly meeting of the retiree group of the Chicago Teachers Union. For the first time in union history, . . .
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Are schools getting enough substitute teachers every day?... Chicago Teachers Union staff ignores meeting of the union's Substitute Teacher committee?
Last week at the CTU retiree meeting, Pat Gerard made an announcement that there was going to be a meeting for Substitutes and someone from CPS Human Resource was coming to the meeting. As readers . . .
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The charter school profiteers... Updates from Detroit as America contemplates the installation of Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education...
[Note for Substance readers. The following article was forwarded to me by a friend and is rrom JACOBIN, a new magazine. "The appearance of Jacobin magazine has been a bright light in dark times," notes . . .
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The perils of privatization under the Emanuel and Claypool regimes... Getting the COBRA runaround from CPS and the privatized vendors...
Because I had to retire from CPS a year ago to have any insurance, I went on COBRA. But instead of paying my money to CPS, I have to go elsewhere. CPS is using a . . .
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Hawaii teachers freed from the reign of tests... partly...
While Chicago teaches and children face another round of so-called "standardized" tests in April, May and June 2016, the push back against those tests has been growing across the USA. Take the example of Hawaii, . . .
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Final budget hearing at Wright College ends with less melodrama... Citizens raise budget and policy concerns ranging from airport noise to rude bicyclists as Dyett situation fades following the 'settlement'...
The final budget hearing on the City of Chicago municipal budget was held on September 4, 2015 at Wright College on the Northwest Side. The sound system was awful and the room was too cold. . . .
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