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Welcome!Welcome to Save North LawndaSchools, a newsletter to provide updaton school closings. If you would like unsubscribe, submit material, or mageneral comments, you may contact mat [email protected]. I loforward to hearing from you soon.
Valerie F. Leonard, Editor
Links to Blogs and OtheResources to Follow
Education Issues
http://www.catalyst-chicago.org
http://www.substancenews.net
http://progressillinois.com/
http://www.ctunet.com/
http://pureparents.org/
The Last Days of Pope School
I had a chance to catch the tail end of the Pope alumni celebration on Friday (August2, 2013). I was touched by the number of success stories and camaraderie in theroom. Truly, this institution has made a tremendous impact on our community for 100years. The building is a well-maintained architectural masterpiece and provided agreat learning atmosphere, and supportive services for the children. It is a sin (in theliteral sense) and a shame to see the institution go. In any other community, thisschool would be considered a community treasure, and deemed almost sacred and
untouchable. As I looked at the pictures, I couldn't help but wonder if CPS deems thechildren of North Lawndale unworthy of such an asset. (More)
Save North
Lawndale Schools
Volume 1 | Issue 5 | August 5, 2013
An update on North Lawndale school closings.
Published by the Committee to Save North Lawndale Schools
Compiled by Valerie F. Leonard
Save Our Schools
Pictures of Leontyne Price and Paul Robeson,
nstalled in panels of the Pope auditorium.
Pope auditorium.
Pope School alumni and family gather one last time before the school closes on
August 13, 2013.
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Federal Lawsuits
Filed Against CPS
The Board of Education voted to close 50 schools at its Mayboard meeting. Of that number, 4 are located in the NorthLawndale community. Bethune will be closed and the buildinggiven to Kellman. Paderewski, Pope and Henson will close
with no publicly disclosed plans for the buildings.
School Closings in Court
I thank Substance News for providing the following detailedaccounts.
Illinois judge rules that CPS can close schools even whena hearing officer rules 'No'Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Allen ruled on July 31 thatthe Chicago Board of Education has the right to close schools
even if a hearing officer finds that the schools shouldn't closed.The ruling, . . .
EDITORIAL: Lawsuit exposed not only violations of therights of students, but the incompetence of Chicago's outof town administratorsThe ongoing lawsuit against Chicago Public Schools forrushing the closing of the largest number of schools in U.S.history has revealed the indifference of CPS officials as well astheir out-of-town incompetence. . . .
Plaintiff's case
Three days of detailed testimony about the Chicago Board ofEducation's plans to close more than 50 of the city's realelementary schools took place in federal court in Chicagobetween July 16 and July . . .
Defense case: How the Board of Education explained itselfThis is the story the Board of Education presented to the courtin defense of what it did to more than 2,000 students withdisabilities.
Lawyering up at CPS... No 'Billion Dollar Deficit!' whenBoard hired a million dollars worth of new lawyers andpaid one outside law firm another million dollars in eightmonthsThe next time Mayor Rahm Emanuel or his hand-pickedschools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd Bennett tellsyou that sacrifices have to be made and that Chicago PublicSchools has cut its budgets to the . . .
Board of Education's star-studded cast back in federalcourt Wednesday, August 7, for hearing on Trumbullspecial ed lawsuitWhile the public awaits the decision of federal judge Lee afterlast month's three days of hearings, the public can return tocourt on Wednesday, August 7, to see the Board's star-studded case of outsiders . . .
Why Substance has published more than 100 pages oftrial reporting from the federal lawsuit against ChicagoPublic Schools for the violation of the rights of children
with disabilitiesWhile there has been a lot going on in Chicago and withChicago's public schools during the last weeks of July and thefirst week of August 2013, Substance reporters and editorshave devoted more .
MEDIA WATCH: Chicago taxpayers pay more than $2million per year to provide daily propaganda on behalf ofRahm Emanuel... Synthetic News straight from City Hall,Chicago style
Once again, on August 1, 2013, the taxpayers of Chicago paidfor a complete media package from the city's mayor,mediagenic Rahm Emanuel. Once again, at taxpayer expense,the mayor's media team issued a press . . .
Illinois judge rules that CPS can close schools evenwhen a hearing officer rules 'No'
Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Allen ruled on July 31 thatthe Chicago Board of Education has the right to close schoolseven if a hearing officer finds that the schools shouldn't closed.The ruling, . . .
Three days of detailed testimony about theChicago Board of Education's plans to close
more than 50 of the city's real elementary
schools took place in federal court in Chicago
between July 16 and July 18. Photo courtesy of
Substance News.
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ISAT Scores Are Back
CPS has posted preliminary ISAT scores. A review of the scores of schools that were closed or turned around in North Lawndaleindicate that the school closing ordeal, combined with changes to the test to conform with national standards, has impacted schoolperformance. Moreover, in some cases the performance of the receiving schools is not much better than the closing schools or theschools to be turned around. School closings have been disruptive to the entire community. Clearly, the 9 months spent on schoolclosings would have been better spent focusing on classroom instruction and preparing for the new test. (As if we really need to focusmore on tests as opposed to education.Here is a link to the test scores for North Lawndale schools that were closed or turned around,
as well as the official and unofficial receiving school scores.
West Siders Against All School
Closings is looking for people
interested in training for Deputy
Registrars. If youre interested in
participating in the class, call
Carolina Gaete at
773 276-2194 (Blocks Together),
or 312 221-6423 (cell)
West Siders Against All School
Closings is takin it to the streets.
Todays Meeting/Cookout will beAugust 5, 2013 in Franklin Park, 5:30
to 7:30,4230 W. 15th
(please bring a park chair)
Questions? Call Carolina Gaete at
773 276-2194 (Blocks Together)
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CPS Preliminary Budget is Complete
The CPS preliminary budget is now complete. You may download copies of the CPS budget presentation and other documents ofinterest from the CPS website. It should be noted that at the beginning of FY 2013, CPS claimed they would have to spend all of theirreserves from FY 2012 to pay for teacher salary increases in FY 2013. They ended 2012 with a fund balance of $1.026 billion,according to the official statement from CPS' May 2013 bond issue. CPS has been telling the media that they faced a $1 billion budget
deficit for FY 2013 due to the teachers strike. They repeated this mantra for nearly the entire FY 2012. The financial statement from theofficial statement of the May 2013 bond issue indicates that CPS has estimated that after adjusting for a $431.8 million deficit they willhave finished FY 2013 with a $636 million fund balance. CPS is now saying that they will have an "historic" $1 billion budget deficit forFY 2014, and will have to deplete their reserves to cover pension payments that are coming due. There is no doubt in my mind thatCPS faces financial challenges. These challenges are not of the catastrophic magnitude that are portrayed in the media. If they were,CPS would not be able to sell or refinance their bonds. Furthermore, there would be an outcry from civic groups demanding that afinancial oversight board be put in place over the Chicago Board of Education. I urge you to pay attention, and not to believeeverything you hear or read in the news. Do your own research.
Check out this slide from the CPS budget presentation. This is further proof that CPS neverhad a $1 billion deficit. This crisis is being manufactured to provide a rationale for closing50 schools in mostly African American communities for the eventual turnover to charteroperators with an inside track.
Letter from Barbara Byrd Bennett, CEO
CPS Budget Overview
CPS Summary Budget Slides
CPS 2014 Budget Book
Official Statement May 2013 Bond Issue
Readers Guide to the Budget
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