Community Renewal Society Annual Report 2007: Catalyst Chicago

The Catalyst page in Chicago Parent magazine.
“Ask Catalyst” re-published in the bilingual Extra newspaper
News extras on the web that give readers information they can use to influence unfolding developments. For example:
- CPS to lose one in five principals
- Union plans to organize charters
- 138 schools now off probation
- More charters heading for CPS (under a union agreement)
- No traction on plan to strip council powers (Catalyst obtained and posted the proposed legislation)
- Longer school day key in contract talks (including city to city comparison)
- McMagnet schools for CPS? (Duncan's idea to “franchis” premiere schools)
- Teacher evaluation linked to contract talks
- Governor‘s budget cuts hit CPS (including a list of which school projects got cut)
A forum on teacher preparation featuring Arthur Levine, the immediate past president of Teachers College at Columbia University.
Posting audio from speeches, including the Chicago Schools Policy Luncheon series, a Q&A with the late Fred Hess, and a discussion among Steve Barr of Green Dot Charter Schools, Marilyn Stewart of the Chicago Teachers Union and Jo Anderson of the Illinois Education Association.