District 299: The Inside Scoop on CPS

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  district299reader

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  CPS credo is LIE, LIE, and LIE. Rahm and Jean Fraud, screwing with teacher's pensions and more via manipulating ...
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  district299reader

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  In reply to viniciusdm:
  GFBrandenburg’s Blog is also great
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  district299reader

  6 hours, 49 minutes ago

  So you believe everything on the CPS site? Foolish--since negotiations are to be kept 'secret.' Makes one wonder why CPS ...
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  district299reader

  7 hours, 37 minutes ago

  According to the CPS web-site, "The CTU proposes to keep the current school day in elementary school, cut all teachers ...
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  district299reader

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  anniesullivan You were a court monitor at the beginning of the court monitoring process when CPS SPED teachers still had hope ...
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Alexander Russo

I grew up near Roscoe & Halsted in the 1970s, left for college and moved back in 2000, started this blog in 2005 (first on my own, then with Catalyst, and now with ChicagoNow). My dad went to Senn. I went to Near North Montessori and Parker. Since 2006 I've been living in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn -- the Wicker Park of New York City. I have another education blog called This Week In Education that focuses on school reform trends at the national level.

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