A plea from the Cassell Local School Council: Restore our budget!
Local school councils all over Chicago are doing what they were designed to do – stand up for their children and their school. Faced with hundreds of thousands, and in some case millions of dollars in budget cuts. some LSCs are refusing to approve their budgets as an act of protest. We are concerned that threats may be emanating from CPS, or at least from CPS messengers, that LSC members voting ag
Call for testimony for school closing lawsuit
From the Chicago Teachers Union:“Save the Date:
Injunction Hearing to Stop School Closings
by ctu communications | 06/14/2013
INJUNCTION HEARING TO STOP SCHOOL CLOSINGS – COME ONE, COME ALL TO PUBLIC HEARING
This is a huge proceeding in terms of efforts to stop the CPS, the Board of Education and Mayor Rahm Emanuel from a record number of school closings. We need your support!
July 16-19, 2013 – 10:00 AM
Courtroom of Federal Judge John Lee
Dirksen Federal Building
219 S. Dearborn – 12th floor
If you have any information you would like to share with our lawyers in opposition to the school closings; believe you have testimony as to why the closings are harmful to special education students; are racist or are otherwise improper and harmful, please call CTU lawyers to participate.
Robin Potter or Patrick Cowlin (312) 861-1800
Tom Geoghegan or Mike Persoon (312) 372-2511″