Tell the truth, CPS! Won’t say how they made longer day decision
Tell the truth, CPS!
Intrepid LSC and PURE member Glenn Krell has been trying to use the Freedom of Information Act as a tool to understand how CPS makes key decisions. It can be a useful strategy, one that PURE has used with some success, as in our 2008 report on charter school accountability (we found there isn’t much).Specifically, Glenn wants to know where CPS got some of the “data” they used to promote the longer school day. For example, he asked where then-CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard got the statistics to back his statement that ”Our elementary school students are receiving 22 percent less instruction time than their peers across the country.” If he didn’t just make that up, there really ought to be a report somewhere with the data from other
PSAT for 2-12-13: Stand strong
The message from CTU President Karen Lewis is simple but powerful – “Stand strong.”
And parents, teachers, students and community advocates from all over Chicago are doing just that.
CPS and its Walmart sponsor are trying to wear us down. They’ve tried the classic CPS Board meeting strategy – hog the public’s time with Power Point propaganda. Minimize the space available so that the huge turnouts aren’t so obvious and people are split up into focus groups where they can’t hear or offer support to other schools. Keep people out completely, as they tried to do last night in Logan Square, or threaten them with arrestfor leafleting outside of these public hearings.
Thousands turned out for the “FIRST ROUND” of 10 hearings under
And parents, teachers, students and community advocates from all over Chicago are doing just that.
CPS and its Walmart sponsor are trying to wear us down. They’ve tried the classic CPS Board meeting strategy – hog the public’s time with Power Point propaganda. Minimize the space available so that the huge turnouts aren’t so obvious and people are split up into focus groups where they can’t hear or offer support to other schools. Keep people out completely, as they tried to do last night in Logan Square, or threaten them with arrestfor leafleting outside of these public hearings.Thousands turned out for the “FIRST ROUND” of 10 hearings under