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CPS lawsuit
From the Chicago Tribune: With an assist from the Chicago Teachers Union, local school council members from nine city schools are asking a Cook County judge to block Chicago Public Schools from closing or “turning around” 17 underperforming schools this year. Union attorneys, working on behalf of the community members, filed for injunctive relief Thursday, [...]
League of Women Voters Challenges Remap for Free-Speech Reasons
League of Women Voters of Illinois contends that the state and federal maps enacted by Springfield Democrats are partisan, and thus inevitably affect citizens’ ability to compete in a political forum.
Gerrymandering district should be against the law
There are First Amendment grounds to force such a law, but is anyone of either party ready for genuine fairness?
More on the Chicago Teachers Union battle
Progress Illinois has a good write up on the issue: A federal court ruled that Chicago Public School teachers laid off last summer for budgetary reasons have the right under the U.S. Constitution to show they are qualified to fill new vacancies within the district as they arise. In the ruling, the judges affirmed a [...]
Tenure Rights Restored in Chicago
From the Chicago Teachers Union: 03/29/2011 Teachers won an important battle in the war for quality schools today. The right for teachers to due process in terminations–tenure–has been restored. President Lewis urged CPS to take this opportunity to begin building trust with its teachers and PSRPs by implementing a fair recall policy immediately as ordered [...]
Parking meters in the news, again
With only $76 million left of a $1.2 billion lump sum payment for turning over control of the city’s parking meters to a private consortium, voters and media pundits will ask the prospective candidates in the next few months their positions on privatizing city services and whether it’s wise to have done some privatizing of services the way Mayor Daley did:
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