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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union has sued the nation's third largest school district, saying Mayor Rahm Emanuel's campaign to reform or close underperforming public schools discriminates against African-American teachers and staff.
The federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday and announced on Thursday is the latest battle with the city since teachers staged a week-long strike in September. It alleges that more than half of the tenured teachers fired in the most recent round of school closings and turnarounds were African American.
But blacks make up less than 30 percent of the tenured teaching staff in the district and 35 percent of the tenured teacher population in the failing schools, the lawsuit claims.
The suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeks an immediate moratorium on any additional school closings in the city. Emanuel, a former top White House adviser to President Barack Obama, and the school district are expected to close more schools in the coming years because of declining enrollment and a huge budget deficit.
The school district has until the end of March 2013 to say which schools it wants to close, and it has appointed a commission to study the matter. The union argues that while the school district is closing existing neighborhood schools, primarily in minority neighborhoods, it is simultaneously approving new, mostly nonunion charter schools.
This fall, public teachers in Chicago staged the first strike against the district in 25 years to protest reforms supported by Emanuel, including teacher evaluations. The teachers were given a pay raise as part of the strike settlement.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-sued-alleged-discrimination-against-black-teachers-235647817.html
Well, that didn't take long for the suit to be filed under Racial Discrimination with CPS Schools. Immediately blaming race as the factor for Poor teachers. Course this was after the School Union agreed to terms with Emanuel and the Rest of the DNC. Which now they would also use the same argument to try and prevent more Charter Schools from being started up in those same poor neighborhoods where the Education was failing the kids.
Also Since CPS schools have went on strike.....just about every two weeks another School District in and around the Chicagoland Area has gone on Strike. All playing off what CPS schools did. Moreover they have known Emanuel and the Democrats had stated they were coming out with New Pension Reform For the Teachers. Which will be affecting their union. Thoughts?
The federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday and announced on Thursday is the latest battle with the city since teachers staged a week-long strike in September. It alleges that more than half of the tenured teachers fired in the most recent round of school closings and turnarounds were African American.
But blacks make up less than 30 percent of the tenured teaching staff in the district and 35 percent of the tenured teacher population in the failing schools, the lawsuit claims.
The suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeks an immediate moratorium on any additional school closings in the city. Emanuel, a former top White House adviser to President Barack Obama, and the school district are expected to close more schools in the coming years because of declining enrollment and a huge budget deficit.
The school district has until the end of March 2013 to say which schools it wants to close, and it has appointed a commission to study the matter. The union argues that while the school district is closing existing neighborhood schools, primarily in minority neighborhoods, it is simultaneously approving new, mostly nonunion charter schools.
This fall, public teachers in Chicago staged the first strike against the district in 25 years to protest reforms supported by Emanuel, including teacher evaluations. The teachers were given a pay raise as part of the strike settlement.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-sued-alleged-discrimination-against-black-teachers-235647817.html
Well, that didn't take long for the suit to be filed under Racial Discrimination with CPS Schools. Immediately blaming race as the factor for Poor teachers. Course this was after the School Union agreed to terms with Emanuel and the Rest of the DNC. Which now they would also use the same argument to try and prevent more Charter Schools from being started up in those same poor neighborhoods where the Education was failing the kids.
Also Since CPS schools have went on strike.....just about every two weeks another School District in and around the Chicagoland Area has gone on Strike. All playing off what CPS schools did. Moreover they have known Emanuel and the Democrats had stated they were coming out with New Pension Reform For the Teachers. Which will be affecting their union. Thoughts?
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