Image by Fibonacci Blue via Flickr A report from the Newstips Blog: As new and old reports at Catalyst and Gapers Block indicate, CORE’s victory in the recent teachers union election reflected the group’s activist orientation and commitment to grassroots organizing, in schools and with communities. “We energized the grassroots,” said one CORE member. CORE came...
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Local school councils are out, Renaissance 2010 is in, and the fight against the machine has only begun. Activists and experts have taken a stand to bring back public schools and public involvement in education; they said they are fighting for their voice. Pauline Lipman, policy studies professor at the University of Illinois at...
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Sharon Morgan sits at her desk surrounded by piles of paperwork and a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee. As she shuffles through the paperwork, she marks her calendar on the day where she plans to speak to her 7th and 8th grade students about completing applications for the best high schools in the city....
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Joseph Walker does not want the death of his grandson, Derrion Albert, to be in vain. He made that clear last week to the Chicago Board of Education as he spoke about Derrion, a 16-year-old honor roll student fatally beaten Sept. 24 on his way home from Fenger Academy High School, 11220 S. Wallace...
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Parents of Whittier Elementary School (1900 w. 23rd St, Chicago) students and members of the Pilsen Alliance thought it was strange when they saw school officials start to fix up the De La Cruz Academy public school, 2317 W. 23rd St.,  in Pilsen last spring, even after they’d been told it was going to...
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By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor, Community Media Workshop A grassroots organizing campaign led by LGBT youth has won agreement from CPS chief Ron Huberman on a new advisory council to promote the school district’s policies against discrimination and harassment. The agreement comes weeks after another youth-led campaign won an expanded anti-discrimination policy from the...
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