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Chicago Public Schools has received a complaint by the Chicago Teachers Union and the Equal Opportunity Commission, who allege that the district’s layoffs last summer unfairly targeted black teachers.
The Chicago Teachers Union filed the complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission saying that the layoffs last summer targeted tenured African-American teachers, writes Joel Hood at the Chicago Tribune.
African-American teachers make up a third of the CPS teachers (about 29 percent), but made up almost 43 percent of those dismissed in 2011. White teachers – 47 percent of the district’s teaching force – represented only 36 percent of those laid off.
The union added that a larger percentage of teachers at schools with high numbers of low-income African-American students were laid off.
Robin Potter, an attorney working for the union, said:
“(CPS) is illegally terminating and laying off African-American teachers who are highly qualified and excellent teachers.
“This is not a question. It is a systematic effort to rid the Chicago Public Schools of tenured teachers who are African-American.
“To make it right they have to stop these layoffs, they have to step back and they have to put these good teachers back in the schools.”
This comes as the teachers union is also fighting a lawsuit against the Illinois Supreme Court over the layoff of about 1,300 teachers, more than 60 percent of them tenured, in 2010.
Officials from the union say that the district broke state law in firing tenured teachers without due process.
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I see the negotiations between CPS and the unions are proceeding smoothly as usual.
“This is not a question. It is a systematic effort to rid the Chicago Public Schools of tenured teachers who are African-American.
I’m sorry, I don’t believe this for a minute.
Why not? What is so hard to believe about this? Racism didn’t just magically end the day Obama took office.
Suprise. Racism did not go away, it was only fully institutionlized. I’m not suprised at all. I got offered a position in a Chicago suberb and turned it down because the area was clearly, intentionally segregated. I didn’t think it would be good for my kids. And I’m sure this is just one story of Chicago area racism in a million.
The problem is getting rid of any teachers. It is like laying off firefighters during the Chicago fire.
Yep. I wonder how many and why teachers might get laid off in China or Finland. It seems the US ed. system is always measured up against other countries and cultures. I wonder if they DO education in a comparable way.
This whole tenure thing is one reason education has a black eye. Modify it. Just wondering if a statistician has looked at these numbers to determine statistical relevancy. I don’t think its as bad as it is made out, though I may be suprised. And with layoffs one would expect some good teachers to be let go, its the consequences of layoffs. Just because your a good teacher doesn’t make you immune to reality.