CPS Bullsh$%
- In last year’s round of closings at Chicago Public Schools, more than 400 children were displaced from four elementary schools, and the district wasn’t able to say where some ended up.
Chicago Public Schools says this year, as it moves nearly 13,000 children from a record number of schools approved this week to close, it will track all its displaced students to see where they land, how they fare in their new school, and what the influx means for the new school.
Surely, they can't be serious? These mopes can't keep track of all the student who don't even live in the boundaries of each school, yet we're supposed to believe they can keep track of where another 13,000 kids end up?
Why do we have a bad feeling that this is going to involve more than the fire department parking trucks on school routes and police going door-to-door?
Why do we have a bad feeling that this is going to involve more than the fire department parking trucks on school routes and police going door-to-door?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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.....Why do we have a bad feeling that this is going to involve more than the fire department parking trucks on school routes and police going door-to-door?.....
Because Rahm says so!
Some of them may be at the morgue. Bodies sold to science. The way this place operates.
We already feed them thru link and lunch/breakfast programs, give them housing and cell phones and school supplies.......now do we have to take them to school and back? This is the parents job.... It's called caring for the kids you chose to have. The police get enough idisrespect calls and jr is missing for the umpteenth time. The government can't raise your kid
Shit gonna blow up this August! Coming to a world class city near you. Good humor men wear uniforms too, lets line them up along the back to school parade route, at least for three weeks... I assume that is how long rham thinks it will take for people to stop giving a shit!
City job safe, despite felony convictions, after Quinn pardon
See the laws don't matter. Gary's Broken Windows stuff is all crap if you have the connections.
3 pounds marijuana possession ++ burglary ++ vote fraud == $78,828 city of Chicago job!!
When Gov. Pat Quinn pardoned a politically connected city of Chicago health department official in late 2011, he didn’t just erase Juan Elias’ rap sheet, which included convictions for marijuana possession, burglary and vote fraud.
The pardon also kept Elias, who heads 1st Ward Ald. Joe Moreno’s political organization, safely in the $78,828-a-year city job that he got after failing to disclose on his job application that he had a criminal past.
Asked if he’d ever been convicted of “any crime,” Elias, 46, checked “no” on the 1990 job application, city records show.
That wasn’t true. Elias actually had two felony convictions at that time — one for a burglary, the other for an arrest with more than 3 pounds of marijuana, the Chicago Sun-Times reported last year
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/20259278-452/city-job-safe-despite-felony-convictions-after-quinn-pardon.html
Boy-oh-boy man working 20-30 hours of O/T every week doesn't leave much time for family and friends does it?
Each and every week for the entire year?!!
Go Metra!!
Newspaper scrutinizes Chicago police's overtime
The overtime bill has risen from $1.9M in 2010 to nearly $2.8M last year.
"...His total pay last year as a cop with the Chicago and suburban commuter rail agency: $154,446, with more than half of that - $90,273 - for overtime."
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The analysis of Metra's 2012 police payroll also shows:
♦ Five other officers, besides Geraty, were paid for an average of at least 30 hours of overtime every week.
♦ Eleven more officers averaged 20 to 30 hours of OT pay each week.
♦ Ten officers' overtime earnings eclipsed their regular pay. They were among 20 Metra cops whose overtime earnings pushed their total pay above $100,000.
Since 2009, the commuter rail agency's tab for police overtime has ballooned by 45 percent. The $1.9 million in overtime Metra paid its cops that year prompted the agency to announce plans to look into police overtime in 2010. An accounting firm ended up....
... overtime pay accounted for 31 percent of Metra police wages last year. Overtime pay for the Chicago Police Department - which also had millions of dollars in NATO Summit-related and other security expenses reimbursed by the federal government - was 6 percent.
Metra cops - who get time-and-a-half overtime pay - can work as much as 16 hours in a row, then have to take eight hours off. Overtime is offered based on seniority.
Two criminal-justice experts question why Metra would allow some officers to put in 60- or 70-plus-hour weeks year-round.
"It just doesn't make any sense," says Maria "Maki" Haberfeld, a professor of police science and department chair at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "It's dysfunctional for both the officers and the public. You cannot achieve more effective policing with overworked police officers."
"When you're subjecting an officer to that many hours, you have to question why," says John J. Millner, a former Republican state senator and chief of police in Elmhurst who also headed the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police.
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Wait until they see this years CPD budget!
Off Topic but more City of Chicago BS:
Who says crime doesn't pay?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-city-parking-deal-hearing-20130525,0,6845721.story
Does retired crook Daley still work for the law firm that over saw the City's deal with the parking meter firm? Does that firm still represent the parking meter firm?
What shame.
The children will need to be sent to Edison Park, Oriole Park, and Mt. Greenwood schools to level the playing field and give them a chance at success.
5 years later, they will be moved back to their own neighborhoods after McHugh and Walsh build 25 new buildings for the UNO charter schools.
I can't believe I'm saying this but...Rahm is right. I see the empty schools in my Dist and understand why this makes sense. C.P.S. is changing the argument and making this about Race,which is ridiculous. Now Jesse Jackson is involved which just adds another clown to the circus.
"I am serious... And don't call me Shirley!"
The bottom line with the schools closings is if 1000 CPS teachers + 1000's more of CPS staffers (clerks, janitors, security gurads, principals, APs etc.) to be out of work, why will there still be CPS employees allowed to live outside Chicago? Some CPS employees were grandfatherd by the old CPS Residency Policy if they were hired before November 20, 1996and are allowed to live outside Chicago. And, many CPS teachers and staffers are allowed to live outside Chicago because they work in "need basis subject areas".
Need basis?
Currently, CPS employees in the following 'need areas' are allowed to live outside of the city and they are:
Special Education, Mathematics, Science, Reading, Bilingual, ROTC, PE, and World Language (Exclusively: Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Latin, Farsi) Teachers.
Along with Librarians, Guidance Counselors, School Nurses, School Psychologists, Speech Pathologists, Sign Language Interpreters, Occupational & Physical Therapists, and Health Service Nurses.
Most of the 'need basis' areas can be understood, but, PE Teachers, ROTC Instructors, Counselors, and Librarians? Really? Are they really a need basis?
Think about those people when you're forking over the 1000's of dollars to private schools because POs have to live in the city.
Where do CPS teachers send their kids? To the suburbs of course because they live there, don't vote for Chicago's mayor, or pay city taxes.
Rahm said the same thing about mental health patients that were dumped from closed clinics all over the city and never tracked as he claimed they were.
Another major Rahm fail. The CPS fail is his too. But he will run and win on his economic success because everyone will forget the fails.
None of this should surpise you when you consider Chicagoans, Mayor Rahn and Bill Daley were Komrade Obama's Chiefs of staff during the beginning of the IRS Targeting Scandals.
Yes they serious and dont call me Shirley.
federal Census data states 100,000 African American's fled this city in last 10 years. The projects are gone! So it is only logical and economical to close the unused and underutilized schools. It makes sense and it is good for the overall school system. My kids go to CPS. We are very happy with their education, the enrollment in there school went from 400 to over 600. They just had an addition put on.
CPS if fine if their is parental involvement. Parents need to be involved with kids and their education.
Cradle to Grave. It is impossible for certain people to live a normal life and handle their own issues.
Do like Pres. Eisenhower did
when he integrated Little Rock Central High School.
Bring the National Guard troops home from Afganistan
and let them provide safe
passage for the schoolkids.
The troops would be serving
a better, more functional purpose with no loss of lives on their part as it is now. And I'm sure they
would appreciate the less-
hazardous duty and the little
kids would at least wave at
them and smile.
And Avis Lavelle, Daley's
spokeswoman left his employ and went to work for the parking meter company and
was paid a substantial amount of money for her work
to get the deal pushed thru.
It will be a mess for the first few months, but why keep schools open when they only have 200 students? I am not for very large schools, 2000 students, but there is limited tax money. If these parents and teachers in these school districts want these small schools to stay open then let them pay for it. The middle class black population is moving out of the city and the % of black students has dropped. The school system will be 1 billion in the hole. Where is the cash coming from? Karen Lewis is only worried about jobs and her job. She has not had one creative thought on how to actually improve the education of our children. It is time for vouchers in Illinois.
I say bullshit and fraud. No one can work that many hours week after week. But, Metra has been a haven for patronage and corruption for many years in hiring and contracts, especially security company contracts. No surprise here. The real surprise is the media is finally paying attention to it. One of the best jobs in the state is that of a Metra conductor.The corrupt Illinois political class has their hand in everything.
My crystal ball says: a lot of follow-up for 2 months and then a gradual lowering of the standards. Something else will be seen as more "important" or there will be a lack of interest by the Rahmmies.
Then, a kid will be shot or beat to death (crossing gang territory or some other silly, ghetto reason)with a pole and the whole thing will begin again.
Rahm will deflect it onto a staff person who dropped the ball, the person will lose their job, and be placed somewhere less obvious.
CPS can't even account for how many employees they have. They have so many data bases regarding employees that they can't provide an accurate number of total employees. And since when did they start using "substitute principals?" No wonder they are "broke"!!!
The city that doesn't work. Morons.
cps is pretty pathetic so I will guess they are going to need help again. this is ridiculous that these kids are rahm's excuse for everything. I thought the lottery was supposed to be for the public schools. yet, rahmie says when a casino comes, the revenue will go to the kids again. if that isn't shady I don't know what is. where is all this money really going to, hmmm?
"Surely, they can't be serious?"
They are serious.
And I won't call you Shirley :-)
('Airplane' is the funniest dang movie. I still rotfl when watching it)
Why bother? The city is under no obligation to keep track of these kids, that's the parents job. I'm not relying on the city to monitor my children.
Tax paying citizen.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It will be a mess for the first few months, but why keep schools open when they only have 200 students? I am not for very large schools, 2000 students, but there is limited tax money. If these parents and teachers in these school districts want these small schools to stay open then let them pay for it. The middle class black population is moving out of the city and the % of black students has dropped. The school system will be 1 billion in the hole. Where is the cash coming from? Karen Lewis is only worried about jobs and her job. She has not had one creative thought on how to actually improve the education of our children. It is time for vouchers in Illinois.
5/25/2013 09:45:00 AM
You ARE aware that Karen Lewis' job is to run the teachers union and act in the best interests of her union's members, right? She doesn't make policy for the schools or the students.
It's the job of Barbara Byrd-Bennett, CEO of the Chgo Public School system, to act in the interest of the students and the City.
Anonymous said...
It will be a mess for the first few months, but why keep schools open when they only have 200 students? I am not for very large schools, 2000 students, but there is limited tax money. If these parents and teachers in these school districts want these small schools to stay open then let them pay for it. The middle class black population is moving out of the city and the % of black students has dropped. The school system will be 1 billion in the hole. Where is the cash coming from? Karen Lewis is only worried about jobs and her job. She has not had one creative thought on how to actually improve the education of our children. It is time for vouchers in Illinois.
5/25/2013 09:45:00 AM
Vouchers would be used to break the schools and decrease the funding. If the populations are so little in these schools, where are the kids going? I bet the answer is charter schools. Less pupils equals less funding and of course enrollment drops with all the additional schools to choose from. It's not a problem for the kids going to private schools or already in a charter school but the other kids who aren't going to either are among the low number of students remaining.
Private/corporate/selective-
enrollment charter schools
financed by our property
tax dollars ? Somehow that does not sound right or legal. But under Rahm's
reign of terror, anything goes if it makes money for
him and his " hangers-on on.
If these parents are so concerned about their kids, why do they have to be begged to send their kids to school after summer vacation ? The school board has to create a carnival like atmosphere to get them to send their kids to school.
Start an Amber Alert for each Chicago child.
You ARE aware that Karen Lewis' job is to run the teachers union and act in the best interests of her union's members, right? She doesn't make policy for the schools or the students.
It's the job of Barbara Byrd-Bennett, CEO of the Chgo Public School system, to act in the interest of the students and the City.
5/25/2013 06:51:00 PM
I am aware of it. That is why I question the constant criticism of the administrations policies by the union. I would give the union a few schools to experiment with. Let the union set education policies for these schools and see if they can do better. The union IS the reason why public education in this state is so poor.
Middle class blacks move out of chicago or in white neighborhoods.
CPS is a bit of a national joke these days. CPS charter school bullshit even made the British press recently (Guardian). I predict that in 25 years, once the neo-liberal urban educator reformers have moved on to greener pastures (and the whole idea that schools can be run based on corporate models has died), the pendulum will swing back to the old-fashioned concept that students are largely a product of their families and communities. When that happens, teachers will begin again to focus on the basics of literacy, math, and science; students and their parents will be held responsible for their performance; teachers will not be expected to be miracle-workers; principals will be able to effectively run schools without political game-playing; and something as logical as school closures due to low enrollment will be greeted with understanding. Or maybe I'm nuts.
The one's beefing the loudist are the same who don't pay any taxes !!!
Vouchers would be used to break the schools and decrease the funding. If the populations are so little in these schools, where are the kids going? I bet the answer is charter schools. Less pupils equals less funding and of course enrollment drops with all the additional schools to choose from. It's not a problem for the kids going to private schools or already in a charter school but the other kids who aren't going to either are among the low number of students remaining.
5/25/2013 09:33:00 PM
if the charters can provide the same required by law curriculum at half the cost, then that would decrease the amount of taxpayer funds needed to achieve the same end result.
the complaints by the cps teachers, managers and other employees, not to mention the support contractors, is all about money.
to solve your proposed problem, convert all cps schools into charters, establish minimum levels of equal funding per student for all, via the same voucher amounts based on grade level, then, if a given charter shows an additional gain in a desired activity requires more funding, they charge the student extra accordingly.
a baseline voucher amount provided to all students, to be spent at the charter school of their choice, is the most efficient way to restore the quality affect of competition to education.
it's also an effective means to remove the socialist propaganda indoctrination currently an insidiously intrinsic part of the cps.
the key is to remove the dictator like influences, via relatively free market choices being available to all students, which have been infecting our public schools for decades.
the resulting lowering of required tax funding will thus reduce the amount of taxes necessary, thus enabling all taxpayers to keep more of their earned income, to be spent as they see fit.
after all, it's supposed to be all for the children, isn't it?
Fear not, our Fugitive Lt will figure out how FU this Safe School Passage. Let me go to afternoons!
To 945am:
Go to www.ctunet.com. Karen Lewis the CTU offered numerous proposals since 2010! The CPS refuses to listen and legitimately listen to the proposals! They are doing things their way which is always wrong. You are also one of those low-information voters that we hear about so often too. Get you facts from somewhere reliable other than regurgitate the mayor's and BBB Ceo bullshit you clown ass.
Or maybe I'm nuts.
5/26/2013 01:04:00 PM
not nuts, just discombobulated.
One of the biggest scams CPS teachers have going on is the residency waiver for need basis subject areas, notably for PE teachers. The need basis for PE is in the elementary schools, not the high schools. But, all of PE was lumped together for the 'need'. There's no 'need' for high school teachers as they've been given waivers by ISBE of the 4-yr. state PE requirement for a decade (just received another 2 yr. waiver) and only 2 years of a requirement for graduation throughout CPS.
Now, that 1000 teachers will be out of work, there's not going to be a 'need' for PE teachers in elementary schools either. And, for that matter, subjects in Math, Special Education, and Science will no longer be a 'need'.
Also, CPS employees working as counselors and librarians will not be a 'need' anymore either.
It's time for Mikey Shileds to get off his ass and start making some noise about all these 'no longer needed' need basis subject areas and how all these CPS people are allowed to live outside Chicago, while POs HAVE to live in Chicago.
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