More Details About Ebony / U Chicago Event - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

More Details About Ebony / U Chicago Event - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

More Details About Ebony / U Chicago Event

by Alexander Russo

Here's the official invitation to the Ebony / University of Chicago event next month, about which you have heard much before. Anyone going? Let us know what happens.

[See below for the agenda, etc.]
The event on Wednesday, August 11, is open to the public and will be broadcast live via webcast. Additionally

AM News: Daley Allies Help Huberman Present A "United" Front

by Alexander Russo

400 CPS teachers to get the ax this week Sun Times: Notices began going out Wednesday to 400 classroom teachers and 200 educational support personnel, a CPS official said. The 600 represent staff at about 200 Track E elementary schools that start their year earlier than most schools, on Aug. 10. (See CTU email about this after the break)... Police should work on days off to combat gangs: Ald. Burke Sun Times: Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th), chairman of the City Council's Finance Committee, said Daley's plan to ease a severe manpower shortage by hiring 100 more officers will take too long and fall far short... A start, but only that, on opennessDaily Herald: Grayslake High School District 127, hired the principal last year and then accepted his resignation in December, owes the people an explanation... The Head Cheerleaders Chicago Reader: Huberman's latest public appearances suggest he was strategizing with Finney and Rangel so they could give the appearance of rock-solid black and Latino support for Daley in his brewing fight with the Chicago Teachers Union. From Karen Lewis:

In Chicago, and across the nation, educators are under attack. In the last few weeks, the Board fired over 200 educators without due process. They have threatened even more cuts that ignore seniority and tenure rights and will harm students by raising class sizes.

The CTU requested full access to all documents pertaining to the 2010-11 CPS budget. Last year, CPS spent $400 million in contracts, but who holds those contracts and for what? On the revenue side, TIFs take $250 million away from our schools each year, $100 million more