On the eve of the September meeting of the Chicago Board of Education... Principal details how CPS has elaborated the mendacious CPS attack on the children... ' Obscured in the latest round of CPS budget cuts is an unprecedented move to cut legally required special education services...'
[Editor's Note: The following information shared by Blaine Elementary School Principal Troy LaRaviere is being published here, since it is a poignant example of how carefully the current CPS administration, under the latest "Chief Executive . . .
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'... Unfortunately � for the students and educators in our district � business as usual for CPS under Emanuel is as backward as it gets. It�s time for an elected school board...' Principal challenges CPS claim that principals will benefit from new plan for so-called 'autonomy'...
[Editor's Note: The following material is reprinted here at Substance with the permission of the writer, the principal of Blaine Elementary School in Chicago. The Sun-Times reported this new policy in its print editions of . . .
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Janice Jackson's Op Ed 'rebuttal' just shows poor logic... 'New CPS Chief Education Officer Makes Lemonade out of Limes'...
[Editor's Note: The exchange between the newly appointed "Chief Education Officer" of Chicago Public Schools, Janice Jackson, and Blaine Elementary School principal Troy LaRaviere has been taking place on the Op Ed pages of the . . .
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Principal's critique of Board of Education's principals' meeting... CPS officials repeated City Hall talking points to captive audience... 'These things are forcing us to choose between making pension payments and making needed investments in the classroom'...
[Editor's Note: The article below was forwarded to Substance almost immediately after it was circulated. Since then, we have received it over and over from those who are asking us to republish it. Here it . . .
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OPT OUT NEWS: 'Organized Confusion: PARCC Hypocrisy, Bullying, and Fear-Mongering in CPS... An Open Letter to Barbara Byrd-Bennett, CEO of Chicago Public Schools...' with a 'cc' to Mayor Rahm Emanuel....
[Editor's Note: As we have been pointing out here at substancenews.net for years, and especially this year as the "Opt Out Explosion" has exploded in Chicago, across Illinois, and nationally, most teachers and principals are . . .
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