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This Week in Ed 12.21.20: Air Filtration Q & A Event Recording | Happy Holidays! ❄️

Happy Holidays and welcome to Winter Break! We have lots of resources and news to share below. We'd recommend skimming the below now, then saving this webpage so you have the links for viewing or reading when you are ready to digest.

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ACTION ALERT: Demand that CPS CEO Janice Jackson reopen all CPS meal sites

UPDATE 6.1.20 8PM: CPS announced that meal sites will reopen tomorrow, June 2. 

  1. Sign the petition. (You may have to skip this if change.org is still offline.)
  2. Email your demand. 
  3. Post on social media. 

(photo credit: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times)

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This Week in Ed 2.20.20: On racial equity in our schools: 2 letters. Plus, Lincoln Yards TIF back in the news.

How are we supposed to trust our city government when the Lincoln Yards TIF report that was given to Alderfolks was authored by a Lincoln Yards lobbyist? What does it say about our priorities when the city is able to sweep this massive conflict of interest under the rug to give Sterling Bay $1.3 billion (almost $500 million less than what is being proposed for the Invest South West initiative)? Our schools are underfunded by $1.9B.

Chicago Tribune: Aldermen relied on a study to approve $1.3 billion for Sterling Bay’s Lincoln Yards. Turns out that Sterling Bay hired the consultant who wrote it.

We would love to see what the Lightfoot Administration has to say as they clearly believed that this conflict of interest should not exist (they quietly changed the policy in the summer; now City Hall can hire TIF consultants who will report to the city.) 

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This Week in Ed 11.21.19: Strike make up days + CTU/SEIU contracts approved by CPS Board of Ed

Teachers voted to ratify the contract last week which officially ended the strike. The CPS Board of Ed approved the strike make up days and the CTU and SEIU contracts yesterday at their monthly meeting. 

Some more press coverage on the strike & contracts below: 

WBEZ: Teachers Strike Remakes 25 Years Of Bargaining in Chicago

Chalkbeat Chicago: Budgets, school ratings, charter schools: Side agreements to Chicago teachers contract reach for big changes

Revised CPS calendar is here. 

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Up with funding, down with vouchers

Action Alert, News, and Research!

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CPS Student March and CPS FY17 Amended Budget Hearings- Monday, February 13, 2017

Recently, CPS made mid year, school level budget cuts, totalling $46M. To see how your school was impacted, please go here. 

There are a few things happening on Monday, February 13, due to these cuts. 

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Our letter to Senators Durbin and Duckworth: Vote no on DeVos

On Tuesday, January 31, we delivered hundreds of letters from Illinois parents and community members to the offices of Senators Durbin and Duckworth. Before the delivery, we hosted a press conference and a rally. Our message was clear: Just vote no!

 

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RYH new Infographic on Subpar Clinician Positions at CPS

Click here to download the infographic as a PDF


Handouts from our Special Education Forum, October 25, 2016

Thank you to our volunteer parents who planned our wonderful forum and who prepared these excellent handouts and advocacy tools!

Thanks, too, to all of the parents, teachers, and principals who joined us tonight.

We will post a link to this page in our Special Education Toolkit for Parents which you can find here.

We were live tweeting as were a few others. See the Storify of the event here.

***In preparing for our November 16, 2017 Special Education in CPS Public Forum (more info on that here) we noticed that 2 links below are broken. You can find File D here and File E here. These documents as well as the ones below will be updated and distributed at our upcoming forum. We will post them on our website when they are ready.

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ISBE Listening Tour on ESSA

Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is doing more listening tour dates on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) which will replace Race to the Top which replaced No Child Left Behind.
Find out more about ESSA here: http://www.ed.gov/essa
ISBE listening tour dates, locations & times here:
http://www.isbe.net/essa/pdf/ESSA-tour2-schedule-0916.pdf

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