BOARDWATCH: Chicago Board of Education ignores parent protests against lies from schools trying to discourage Opt Out...'In addition to this completely unacceptable behavior of adults in our schools, the PARCC continues to disrupt the education of our children:..'[Editor's Note: Although protests have been taking place across Chicago since the first days of the PARCC testing began, the members of the Chicago Board of Education and Board "Chief Executive Office" Barbara Byrd Bennett . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Chicago Board of Education meeting of February 25, 2015 continued the Board's privatization and charter school policies despite the verdicts of the February 24 municipal election against Rahm Emanuel and the massive vote for an elected school board!The Chicago Board of Education met on February 25, 2015, the day after the vast majority of voters in Chicago voted that it should not exist in the form it has taken for more than . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Complete report on the November 19, 2014 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. More than 500 people attended the meeting, probably the largest turnout at a Chicago school board meeting in history...The November 19, 2014 regular monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education normally would have been held at 125 S. Clark Street at 10:30 a.m., but the Board is in the process of moving . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Jerry Skinner on Kelvyn Park High School problems... 'The double standard applied by CPS to the teachers of Kelvyn Park reeks of the irresponsible practice of power...'[Editor's Note: Substance's BOARDWATCH is publishing the remarks prepared and delivered by the speakers at the monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The meeting of November 19, 2014 saw more than 500 people . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: 'REACH performance tasks are setting our children up to fail!' Sarah Chambers charges readability of reading test questions for lower grades is as high as 'college level' while Board members sit clueless[Editor's Note: Once again, Substance's BOARDWATCH feature is publishing the remarks prepared and delivered by the speakers at the monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The meeting of November 19, 2014 saw more . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Chicago Teachers Union recording secretary leads dozens of speakers demanding arbitration against the 'toxic swaps'[Editor's Note: Once again, Substance's BOARDWATCH feature is publishing the remarks prepared and delivered by the speakers at the monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The meeting of November 19, 2014 saw more . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Veteran teacher Tammie Vinson explicates the impact of closings on teachers, kids, communities and schools when the closings are a serial killing of communities -- and special education children are deprived of the services they need and are legally entitled to...[Editor's Note: Once again, Substance's BOARDWATCH feature is publishing the remarks prepared and delivered by the speakers at the monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The meeting of November 19, 2014 saw more . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: '...according to CPS’s own budget figures, more than 200 library positions have been cut in the past two years....' Librarians ask CPS to join other large districts to assure librarians in every school[Editor's Note: Substance's BOARDWATCH feature is publishing the remarks prepared and delivered by the speakers at the November 19, 2014 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The meeting saw more than 500 people present . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Board meeting sees fewest 'public participation' participants in more than a decade at the first meeting of the Chicago Board of Education for the 2014 - 2015 school year on September 24, 2014Sixty slots were available for people to speak at this month's regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, at the Chicago Board of Education (BOE) at 125 S. Clark Street. Only twenty-six people signed . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Chicago Board of Education meeting of July 23, 2014 highlighted by large public protests against budget lies before the Board doubles down and votes to approve its $6.8 billion budget for the 2014 - 2015 school yearThe Chicago Board of Education began its July 23, 2014 meeting at a little after 10:30 a.m. The roll call showed that six of the seven members of the Board were present, along with "Chief . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Community -- through W.A.N.T. -- again asks CPS to stop expanding Passages charter school and subsidizing 'American Quality Schools'[The following is the statement read on July 23, 2013 by Diane Daleiden at the monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The statement provided to Substance by the Ms. Deleiden and is reprinted . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Chicago's school board continues lies, while outrage explodes at the July 23 meeting. The $6.8 billion budget again increases money for charters (including those under federal FBI investigation) while continuing draining dollars from real public schools...It has been months since all seven members of the Chicago Board of Education (all appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel) have been at a monthly meeting of the Board together. Considering that they only have . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Vitale's police state expands attacks on press freedom, as parents are hauled out of Board meeting and even the Tribune and Sun-Times are warned against 'disrupting' the meeting by covering the newsOne year after the Chicago Board of Education made the Guinness Book of World Records for ruthlessly closing the largest number of public schools in the nation's history and then trying to cover up the . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: Chicago Board meeting shows disregard for protests from communities against AUSL, 'turnaround'A large number of individuals who protested the proposed turnaround of Dvorak, McNair, and Gresham elementary schools dominated the public participation portion of the Chicago Board of Education monthly meeting held on Wednesday, April 23, . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: February 26, 2014 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education continues Vitale's policy of suppressing democratic speech against CPS policies with escalating viciousness...At the regular monthly meeting of the Chicago Board of Education at 125 S. Clark Street on February 26, 2014, more parents of children at traditional neighborhood schools finally got a chance to speak during . . . | Article | |  |
OPT OUT NEWS: Great video 'Ain't Gonna Teach To The Test No More' needed to begin every class today... Few corporate media news reports from the February 26 Board meeting get to the truth about what was said during the long meetingA new You Tube video "Ain't Gonna Teach To The Test No More" to the tune of "Gonna Lay Down My Sword And Shield..." is going viral on You tube, thanks to the talented . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: More Than A Score versus CPS on testing... 'we call on you to change the culture of fear and paranoia that feeds this misinformation by lowering the quantity and stakes of standardized testing and increasing the value placed on high quality learning.'[Substance Editor's Note: The following statement was delivered at the February 26, 2014 meeting of the Chicago Board of Educatoin by Cassie Crestwell of More Than A Score. The members of the Board of Education . . . | Article | |  |
CONGRESSMAN DAVIS BETRAYS UNIONS... Final meeting of the Chicago Board of Education for 2013 continues Board's assault on the city's real public schools while eliminating more and more of the public from the 'public participation' in the lone public meeting of the monthThe December meeting of the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday, December 18, 2013, at 125 S. Clark Street began with festive holiday performances by Kenwood Academy and Lane Tech High School. Kenwood Academy guys . . . | Article | |  |
BOARDWATCH: 'This was a deceptive backroom deal with no transparency, no public input, and no community meetings!...' Michelle Villegas' statement to the Board of Education exposing the hypocrisy of the Lincoln Elementary School addition[Editor's Note: The following statement was read to the five members of the Chicago Board of Education during public participation at the November 20, 2013 meeting of the Board. Board members Andrea Zopp and Mahalia . . . | Article | |  |
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