The same week a study revealed record high vacancies in U.S. industries for skilled technical workers, the Chicago Public School system has announced plans to open as many as five experimental, six-year schools that will graduate students with specialized training and even an associate’s degree. Funded by a $400,000 “challenge grant” from IBM, the pilot [...]
How do you bring focus to students in a system where their education is complicated by budget shortfalls, labor disputes and violent crime in their surrounding neighborhoods? How do you connect the prospect of high school graduation to career success for students who’ve seen unemployment hit staggering highs? Jean-Claude Brizard wants to teach them a [...]
The tug of war between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Teachers Union over the mayor’s strong pushes for instituting a longer school day has gone public with the launch of a new page on the Chicago Public Schools website that campaigns for the change. Filed under “District Initiatives” on the main CPS website and [...]
The Chicago Teachers Union on Friday filed a unfair labor lawsuit against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Board of Education, claiming that the board has coerced and bribed schools into lengthening their instructional day by 90 minutes. The lawsuit, as reported by NBC Chicago, also claims Chicago Public Schools threatened to shutter schools where teachers did not approve [...]
The Chicago Teachers Union on Friday filed a unfair labor lawsuit against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Board of Education, claiming that the board has coerced and bribed schools into lengthening their instructional day by 90 minutes. The lawsuit, as reported by NBC Chicago, also claims Chicago Public Schools threatened to shutter schools where teachers did not approve [...]
A supermajority of teachers at Englewood’s Benjamin E. Mays Elementary Academy voted Thursday to add 90 minutes of instructional time to their school day — the fourth Chicago Public Schoolto break from the city’s teachers union and approve the longer day. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that teachers at May will receive a lump sum payment roughly equivalent [...]
Chicago Public School students returned to class Tuesday following a dramatic summer for their teachers and new CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard. An estimated 300,000 students and 20,000 teachers headed to their prospective schools following an aggressive push by Brizard and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to have 100 percent attendance on the first day. One way [...]
Chicago Public School students returned to class Tuesday following a dramatic summer for their teachers and new CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard. An estimated 300,000 students and 20,000 teachers headed to their prospective schools following an aggressive push by Brizard and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to have 100 percent attendance on the first day. One way [...]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard received an early Labor Day present when teachers at three small CPS schools voted Friday to add 90 minutes to their day during the upcoming academic year. Two of the schools — a University Village-located new school STEM Magnet Academy and Skinner North Classical [...]
After standing at the forefront of massive, unprecedented protests over collective bargaining and workers’ rights on their home turf earlier this year, members of the Madison Teachers Union and other labor leaders will join forces with the Chicago Teachers Union in a pre-Labor Day, pro-teachers rally Wednesday. NBC Chicago reports that the union will be joined by [...]
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