NEA. Supreme Court decision turns back our nation’s commitment to racial equality .
- National Education Association WASHINGTON – April 22, 2014 - The Supreme Court of the United States today delivered its opinion in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, rejecting a constitutional challenge to Michigan’s Proposal 2, an initiative that bans affirmative action in university admissions. The decision of the Sixth Circuit has been reversed. The National Education Associ
CTU’s Karen Lewis on today’s decision by the CPS board to wage war on African-American students, teachers and parents.
- CTUnet The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released the following statement upon news that the Chicago Board of Education voted to “turn around” three elementary schools on the city’s South and West sides. The move will transfer the schools’ authority to a politically connected business organization with ties to city hall: “Today’s hostile takeover of three of our neighborhood school communities b
3-0 ruling by Illinois Appellate Court ruling defending the Constitutional protects is an omen for pensions.
Crain’s: In a case with implications for the upcoming legal battle over pension reform, an Illinois appellate court in Springfield ruled that constitutional protections prevent the state from reducing mandated payments to county treasurers. The pension protection clause of the Illinois Constitution, which says that workers’ retirement benefits can’t be diminished, is at the heart of lawsuits chall
Justice may be blind but we can see.
Since Michigan banned affirmative action in 2006, the minority population at its colleges and universities has dropped from 12 percent to 9.5 percent. The proportion of Black freshmen has gone from 7 to 5 percent even though the Black college-aged population in Michigan went from 16 to 19 percent. When it comes to the U.S. Supreme Court, justice isn’t blind. It has a racial bias. The result of the
4-22-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: John Dillon. Poor Representative Mike Bost.. - John Dillon blogs at Pension Vocabulary. Let’s not forget just a year ago, Madigan was the chief architect of an unconstitutional pension bill that was later given after initial failure to a group of ten willing to forgo their oaths of office to patch and