BOARDWATCH: 'REACH performance tasks are setting our children up to fail!' Sarah Chambers charges readability of reading test questions for lower grades is as high as 'college level' while Board members sit clueless
[Editor's Note: Once again, Substance's BOARDWATCH feature is publishing the remarks prepared and delivered by the speakers at the monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The meeting of November 19, 2014 saw more . . .
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OPT OUT 2015: More Than A Score regional meetings to plan for Opt Out 2015
Members of the CORE testing committee met on August 19 and decided to encourage everyone to attend the More Than A Score regional meetings as part of the planning for the 2015 Opt Out . . .
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Pilsen - Little Village 'Network' Hearing February 6, 2013... Community Voice Rises Above the Disorganization of CPS’ Utilization Hearing
"I'm going to give up if you shove me into another school," a Madero student cries out as he walks towards Arne Rivera, Deputy Chief of Staff for Barbara Byrd-Benett. "You shouldn't close our school, . . .
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Destructive '20th Day Rule' challenged from both ends and UNO's claims debunked... Teachers expose the truth about the poor UNO performance and take action to take back students from predatory charter schools' marketing claims
The infamous "20th Day" hit the city's Track R (regular schedule) public schools on October 10, one month after the Chicago Teachers Strike of 2012 had began and more than two weeks after the regular . . .
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Brizard's appointed principal tries to bar public from a public meeting... Protests continue against tyranny at Social Justice High School as the community, teachers and students continue traditions of the school born from hunger strike
The start to this new school year was turbulent for Social Justice High School, one of the schools inside Little Village High School on Chicago's Southwest Side. School was supposed to begin with the other . . .
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Teachers part of massive march against NATO, militarism
“Whereas military budgets and expenditures have taken money from education, social services, healthcare and other needed programs causing hardship to the American people and causing a loss of jobs; Therefore be it resolved that this . . .
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Hearing on Crane again finds majority supporting Crane
I attended the hearing on January 24, 2012, for Crane High School. The hearing, like all the hearings this week and next week, was held at CPS headquarters at 125 S. Clark St. The room . . .
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Hundreds rally in Chicago as nine anti-war and solidarity activists prepare to defy grand jury
More than 350 people gathered in front of the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago on January 25, 2011, to oppose the grand jury and FBI repression. This two-hour rally was organized to support the nine . . .
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FBI raids on union workers and anti-war activists continue as grand jury looms
On September 24th, 2010, the FBI raided the homes of seven union workers and antiwar activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. They confiscated computers, books, cell phones, documents, children’s artwork, and other personal belongings. According to . . .
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