Press Conference- Thursday, June 21st 9am

CAUSE MEMBERS ,

A national coalition of parents and students will hold a press conference at 9am on Thursday, June 21st at U.S, Department of Education offices at 500 West Madison, Suite 1475. Students and parents are filing complaints alleging that top-down school closings, turnarounds and school phase-outs are a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They are demanding a meeting within two weeks of this press conference with Secretary Arne Duncan and Assistant Secretary of the Office of Civil Rights Russolyn Ali. If they do not get that meeting, they will bring the meeting to them.



What: Press Conference for Multiple City Civil Rights Complaints to the

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights



When: Thursday, June 21st

9am



Where: Office for Civil Rights, Chicago Office

U.S. Department of Education

500 W. Madison Street, Suite 1475

Chicago, Illinois 60661



This press event is sponsored by students and parents from several cities in the United States including Detroit Michigan, Baltimore Maryland, New York, Newark New Jersey, Eureka Mississippi, Wichita Kansas, Boston Massachusetts, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. These students and parents are a diverse set of members of prominent community organizations in their cities, national coalitions such as the Alliance for Education Justice and Communities for Excellent Public Schools and independent tax payers who demand the end to “taxation without representation” and failed education policies forced on communities of color throughout the United States.

CALL
Rosita Chatonda
773-419-7417
rcchatonda@yahoo.com

OUTREACH TO CHILDREN - PEASE JOIN CAUSE

CAUSE is starting an educational reach out initiative for children . I have been working to bring attention to the EDUCATIONAL HOLOCAUST that is happening to every African American School District across the country. African AMERICAN VETERAN TEACHERS ARE being fired and brought up on unsubstantiated charges, they are being given "unsatisfactory ratings and fired in record numbers and replaced by young white interns. Our unions, both national, state and even local have decided that this isn't a union issue and that they can't do anything for ONE GROUP in isolation because the OTHERS will not appreciate it. So that leaves us with no choice, WE WILL BRING NATIONAL attention to what is going on here in Chicago. It's a cancer spreading throughout the nation. It's equivalent to "Black Genocide"

So our children are also so being victimized. passing them on with a 24% proficiency rating.CPS has purged 50,000 African American students from the system. Parents should be outraged and demand help for their children. We are losing our children to gangs and having discussions at CPS sponsored CACS - Community Action Councils about how we can incarcerate what they call "Thugs , Gang Bangers and Terrorist" . What respectable community would refer to their children in these terms???

People we at Rainbows End , we can do this. WE CAN RECLAIM our educational communities without the help,of CPS's privatization pipeline to prison model. We cab reclaim it without the CTU's " I'll protect the union even if 4, 000 people lose their jobs model" We can do this by developing real parental voice , we must reach out to our children and help save them before the gangs reel them in.

Teachers Summer is out, we desperately need your help to do this. If you are displaced, working, union or non union, we need your expertise ."WE ARE ALL TEACHERS" CAUSE Meets at Operation PUSH Today at 6:00,
50th and Drexel. JOIN CAUSE FOR REAL COMMUNITY VOICE

CAUSE Fundraiser

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Public Event · By Rosita Chatonda

Suggested Guests

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• • 5:00pm until 8:00pm

• NOTICE -DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED Steppers Set - Tickets $10.00 - In Advance or at the Door Please come out and support our teachers who work in the African American community. They have been unfairly targeted for dismissal by CPS.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/CAUSE-Chicago-Alliance-of-Urban-School-Educators/277275158965226

CAUSE is organizing in schools that traditionally serve minority students. We ask anyone at a Turn-Around School, Given an E-3 or unsatisfactory rating or brought up on charges to attend. Working teachers please support our veteran teachers. You could be next (and probably will be. There are at least 4,000 teachers terminated since 2010. about 1/2 have gotten their jobs back and more have been fired this year. Join Cause for real com

CPS and SEIU Reach a Tentative Pact

http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/notebook/2012/06/04/20158/in-news-cps-seiu-reach-tentative-pact