By CTU Communications | June 16, 2017 | Further Reading
This week, we’ve moved our schedule around a little bit to accommodate and highlight yesterday’s story on dual-segregation. Here’s what we’ve been reading in the meantime. We’re focusing on the many ways racism rears its head in... By CTU Communications | June 8, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Broke on Purpose, Budget, Immigration, police brutality, Segregation, state budget
This week, we’re reading about Illinois’ regressive school funding formula, how Chicago communities are fighting deportation, and how CPS policies have worked to segregate Black students as well as Black teachers. A Just Chicago will have more on the new... By CTU Communications | June 1, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Budget, Jobs, Justice, LGBTQ, reparations, wages
This week, we’re looking at incarceration and how the city has started implementing reparations, what kinds of jobs bring real stability to low-income families, and how affirming our students’ identities impacts their achievement in school. 1.... By CTU Communications | May 25, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Budget, Charter Schools, policing, Privatization, Racism
This week, we’re taking a look at structural barriers to student success, how the city, state, and federal government have slashed programs to support students, and how privately-run charter schools impact public school funding and evaluation. 1. How Some Kids... By CTU Communications | May 18, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: disinvestment, educational funding, Housing, incarceration, Privatization, Segregation
This week, we’re reading about the mechanisms that drive Chicago’s continued inequities in a few different sectors. First up, some new information about how CPD uses computers and profiling to track folks without arrest records. Then, a look at how private... By CTU Communications | May 11, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Broke on Purpose, Budget, educational funding, High School, school choice
This week, we’re reading about the illusion of school choice and how Chicago communities are pushing back against it, the impact of Chicago’s demographic changes, and some real solutions for CPS’s budget woes. 1. The Real Problem with Chicago’s... By CTU Communications | May 4, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Budget, Homelessness, Poverty, Special Education
This week, we’re reading about the pervasiveness of homelessness in Chicago and the forces that exacerbate it, how the federal health care debate impacts special education, and gun violence in Chicago. 1. Rahm Emanuel postpones briefings on CPS rescue :... By CTU Communications | April 27, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Budget, disinvestment, Immigration, opportunities to learn, school counselors
This week, we’re reading about CPS’s lack of plans to back their new mandates, how communities are fighting back against racist immigration policy, and how institutional racism impacts the ways students of color learn math. 1. What Will Happen if Schools... By CTU Communications | April 20, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: eviction, Privatization, Racism, Rahm Emanuel, Special Education
This week, we’re reading about how DeVos’ vouchers hurt special education, evictions in South Shore and why wages matter for housing, and how Rauner continues to profit off of bad public policy. 1. Black and brown boys don’t need to learn... By CTU Communications | April 13, 2017 | Further Reading
File under: Chicago Housing Authority, eviction, Privatization, Segregation
This week, we’re looking at how our brothers and sisters are organizing in charter schools, the struggle to find safe, affordable housing, and the ongoing need to fight segregation in our schools. Charter school union fight heats up : Charter schools are... 
