June 2003

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June 2, 2003. Chicago schools Chief Executive Officer Arne Duncan (right), Chief Education Officer Barbara Eason-Watkins (center), and school board president Michael Scott (left) try to explain the results of the latest round of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) to reporters at Burroughs Elementary School.

GENERAL NEWS

• Daley dodging collapse of his Big Lie on test scores
  
  
• Doublecross and doubletalk doomed Flower High School
  
  
• Substance appeal goes to 7th Circuit this month
  
  
• Lindblom still in limbo
  
  
• Freedom of Information Act given teeth in Illinois
  
  
• Massive bureaucracy expansion helps prime Board of Education ‘budget crisis’
  
  
• Chicago's 2003 Elementary Scores on the IBST
  
  
• Teachers complete independent study
  
  
• May Board Meeting
  

UNION NEWS

• May House of Delegates Meeting
  
  
• Unions take critical look at health care
  
  
• CLUW honors union women
  
  
• PACT Second City fundraiser a success
  
  
• Pension fund will continue to get health care subsidy
  
  
• Glenbrook North fiasco shows money can't buy wisdom
  
  

THE RESISTANCE

• It’s time to boycott in Florida
  
  
• Critics of graduation exam threaten boycott
  
  
• The Laura Bush Library Foundation, The Importance of School Libraries, and A Suggestion
  
  
• Not With Our Kids You Don’t!
  

OPINION

• Editorial
  
  
• Letters
  
  
• Sister Grim
  
  
• Subscripts
  
  
• After Thoughts- Learning to read and the ‘W Principle’