UNO chieftain out... Problem with charter corruptions growsThe December 5, 2013 announcement that UNO chieftain Juan Rangel was resigning came as a shock to no one who has been following the rather sordid tale of nepotism, cronyism, union busting and corruption at . . . | Article | |
Drinking the Technology-Enhanced Kool-aidLior Klirs, Coordinator of English Language Arts Content and Resources in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at the Tennessee Department of Education, offers an explanation (http://thescoresheet.org/2013/11/25/how-were-building-parcc-ela-and-literacy) of how the Common Core-aligned tests will be . . . | Article | |
MEDIA WATCH: 'These people are hypocrites, and they should be ashamed to open their mouths...' Karen Lewis lays out the challenge on 'pension reform' in The New York TimesIt was buried towards the end of the article, after a stream of half-truths and lies quoting Rahm Emanuel and the billionaires' mouthpiece, Civic Federation chief Laurence Msall, but at least it was there. The . . . | Article | |  |
CTU had a history of activism against apartheid... Chicago Teachers Union pauses to honor memory of Nelson MandelaThe Chicago Teachers Union has had a long history of organizing opposition to racism, and part of that history was supporting the struggles of the majority of people in South Africa against apartheid. That support . . . | Article | |  |
Catalyst investigation hitting Byrd Bennett's corruption... 'Chicago Executive Leadership Academy' is another ripoff... Principals will be attending their 'training' on December 7 while edupreneurs and Barbara Byrd Bennett's buddies laugh all the way to the bank...SUPES Academy corruption continuesThe question is when Chicago principals and other professionals (including those at the city's major universities) will take a public stand against an example of corruption that even in Chicago is a zinger -- CELA . . . | Article | |  |
ANALYSIS: Liars and thieves vote for 'pension reform'... State pension hopes now rest with lawsuit on constitutionality of what the General Assembly has doneIt was passed by both houses of the Illinois General Assembly on December 3, 2013. Illinois Senate Bill 1, the So-called “Pension Reform” Bill (or Attempt to Break a Constitutional Contract with Public Employees and . . . | Article | |  |
ALEC plans include continuing attacks on public education, teachers and unionsDespite growing protests across the nation, the strategy of America's ruling class continues unabated. The December 3, 2013 Illinois vote to begin the destruction of the state's defined benefit pension plans (most, for teachers and . . . | Article | |
Chicago teachers joined lobbying against 'pension reform' during heated day in SpringfieldOn December 3, 2013, dozens of CTU members were in Springfield lobbying against the vote for so-called "pension reform." In addition to days of telephone lobbying by members of the CTU, the union sent one . . . | Article | |  |
'This is not over...' Union leaders vow to continue fight for fair pensions, despite Springfield voteDespite the narrow vote to approve so-called "pension reform" legislation by the Illinois General Assembly on December 3, 2013, opponents of the continued attack on public service and public sector workers are preparing to continue . . . | Article | |  |
Illinois' so-called 'Pension Reform' Is Without Legal and Moral Justification…To possess a right to a promised deferred compensation, such as a pension, is to assert a legitimate claim with all Illinois legislators to protect that right. There are no rights without obligations. They are . . . | Article | |  |
Why 'School Choice' is not the 'Civil Rights Issue of Our Time'[Editor's Note: Its one of those salvation stories that indicates when you are dealing with someone of a religious zealotry. The CHARTER SCHOOL THAT SAVED MY SOUL (AND LIFE) version of reality. Every meeting of . . . | Article | |
VALLAS WATCH: Black teacher elimination was a key to the Vallas program from 1995 through 2001Although a great deal has been reported during the last few years about the elimination of black people from Chicago's teaching force, an examination of the historical facts (please leave the word "data" to the . . . | Article | |  |
Major City Hall protest planned for Monday, December 9... 'Naughty or nice' awards to be givenThe Chicago Teachers Union, in alliance with several other organizations, will be holding a protest at Chicago's City Hall on Monday, December 9, 2013. According to a union press release: "On Monday, December 9th, hundreds . . . | Article | |
Betrayal in Springfield: Does Pension 'Reform' mean we must organize a third party now?Glen Brown reported on November 21, 2013, at Substance and elsewhere, accurately, as follows: "Illinois' four legislative leaders have been meeting privately in an effort to carve out a pension reform deal. Only top staffers . . . | Article | |  |
COMMON CORE: The lies underlying the Common Core push have been exposed, and now the resistance has to be done state-by-stateAll the evidence points to the upcoming year as a time for a major struggle across the USA against the so-called "Common Core" being promoted by the Obama administration through the U.S. Department of Education . . . | Article | |  |
'The main culprit was our profit-focused system, with rising profiteering by a massive health care industry...' The Real Fix for Obamacare's Flaws: Medicare for All[Editor's Note: Why is anyone in the USA surprised that Rose Ann DeMoro has to publish her analysis of the need to go beyond "Obamacare" in the Guardian, a British newspaper? Anyway, the following appeared . . . | Article | |  |
Saturday forum on charter school corruption continues Northwest Side opposition to charter infection with Saturday forum on 'UNO corrption'With barely a pause for the Thanksgiving holiday, the growing opposition around Chicago to the infectious spread of charter schools continues on Saturday, November 30, 2013 with a forum on UNO charter corruption at the . . . | Article | |  |
Met in Uptown church the night before the official CPS Board...Peoples Board continues its boycott of the regular meetings of the Chicago Board of EducationThere was a "People’s School Board Meeting" on Tuesday, November 19, 2013, the night before the regular monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The "peoples" event took place from six to eight p.m. . . . | Article | |  |
InBloom Outbloomed, KABOOM! InBloom controversy now is only in New York state... Parent and teacher victory as CPS dumps InBloom and Illinois makes InBloom 'voluntary' for smaller school districtsLess than a week after a major public forum in Chicago brought together opponents of the controversial privatization of student data in Chicago via a contract with a company called "InBloom," Chicago Public Schools has . . . | Article | |  |
CLUW holds successful convention in RenoAbout 500 delegates (as well as family members) attended the bi-annual convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Reno from November 20 to November 23, 2013. Union women from Chicago were, as . . . | Article | |
