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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, implored her audience of public educators to promote social justice by politicizing math.

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Chicago Teachers Union President Explains How To Use Math To Teach Social Justice

By Steve Straub On May 1, 2014 · 216 Comments · In Education, Video


The left thinks the sole purpose of public education is to indoctrinate children into accepting progressive values, teaching social justice and to create new Democrats. It’s why sending your children to public schools is increasingly becoming parental malpractice.

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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, spoke at the Network for Public Education conference in Austin, Texas, recently and implored her audience of public educators to promote social justice by politicizing math.
Giving a nod to her fellow Milwaukee Teachers Union president and liberal activist pal Bob Peterson, Lewis explained how to promote social justice in math word problems, such as changing “Johnny” to “José” and instead of writing “Johnny buys some pencils,” change it to, “José works in a factory.”
Lewis said:
You want to talk about organizing? You want to talk about social justice? Can I just use a Bob Peterson story, a quick one?
People always talk about that there’s no politics and values in math — that you can teach math and there’s no place for social justice. So let me tell you how Bob deals with that. Everyone has seen that story problem that says, “Johnny has five pencils and if he spent two cents for the red pencil, then eight cents for the green pencils and he’s got 47 cents, how many pencils can he buy?” We’ve all seen that, right? That’s a very political statement because it’s all about consumerism. It’s about buying stuff, right?
Bob Peterson tells them about José working in a factory making piecemeal clothes. He uses the same numbers and gets the same answer. And yes, math is political, too. Sisters and brothers, don’t fall for the okey doke. Don’t let people tell you there’s one way to do anything.

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CTU’s Karen Lewis on today’s decision by the CPS board to wage war on African-American students, teachers and parents.

April 23, 2014




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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released the following statement upon news that the Chicago Board of Education voted to “turn around” three elementary schools on the city’s South and West sides. The move will transfer the schools’ authority to a politically connected business organization with ties to city hall:
“Today’s hostile takeover of three of our neighborhood school communities by the mayor’s handpicked Board of Education makes it quite clear that there is a war on older, African-American teachers and administrators, as well as the school communities in which they serve,” said Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union.
“After being starved of resources for many consecutive years, Dvorak, Gresham and McNair, three promising elementary schools, were set up for failure by our school district. While we are proud of the members we have working in ‘turnaround schools’ operated by the Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL), our issue is that this dubious, corporate reform model has proven to do little but take over schools discredited by CPS and then, after receiving millions of dollars in support, take credit for the sudden but short-lived academic success among students.
“Nearly a year ago we witnessed thousands of parents, community leaders, clergy, educators and students begging to be heard as the Board destroyed nearly 50 schools. Today parents, administrators and teachers were forced to beg the Board of Ed for the right to a future, only to be slapped down and have their cries fall on deaf ears. Where are the leaders in our school district who are protecting the interests of these students and their constituents? This is why we stand strong in our call for a democratically elected, representative school board.”

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Chicago Teachers Union to Mayor Rahm: Improving failed schools full of black kids is RACIST

April 12, 2014 12:18 PM



Chicago Teachers Union to Mayor Rahm: Improving failed schools full of black kids is RACIST

In late March, the Chicago Board of Education announced an ambitious plan to implement its “turnaround” model for three low-performing elementary schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods.
The turnaround process involves the sacking of every teacher and staffer at each of the schools, according to an email from the Chicago Teachers Union obtained by The Daily Caller.
Naturally, the union bosses aren’t happy that the nation’s third-largest school district is employing such sweeping measures to improve some of its worst schools.
Still reeling from the closure of 50 schools in 2013, embattled Chicago Teachers Union Karen Lewis called the turnaround plan “a slap in the face to those of us who are attempting to negotiate for more resources” and “nothing more than school closings by another name.”
The email from the teachers union also suggested that the effort to improve the schools is an effort spearheaded by Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett to damage black children and black families.
“This is an attack on Black schools that continues the assault carried out by” Byrd-Bennett “last year, when she closed 50 schools (claiming they were the last closings for at least five years).”
Byrd-Bennett is black.
“After closing 50 schools, now we find three campuses more on the chopping block while the mayor continues his televised propaganda campaign of promoting these disastrous policies,” Lewis, a Dartmouth graduate, fulminated.
In a CPS press release, Byrd-Bennett countered by saying that the city is committed to fixing schools that aren’t adequately educating students.
“The power of a high school diploma is great and the power of a college diploma is even greater,” said the CEO. “Our children have one chance at a high-quality education and we are committed to doing everything we can to provide our students with the tools they need to be successful.”
One of the three schools facing turnaround plans is Ronald E. McNair Elementary School, which has been on academic probation for the past 14 years. Another school is Dvorak Technology Academy, which has been on academic probation for the past 7 years. The third school is Walter Q. Gresham Elementary School, which has been on academic probation for the past 6 years.
If the Board of Education approves the plan at its board meeting on April 23, the three schools will be managed by the Academy for Urban School Learning (AUSL), a nonprofit organization which already manages 29 public schools in Chicago where over 17,000 students are enrolled.
The turnaround process involves bringing in teachers and staffers who have been specifically trained to work in low-performing schools. It would begin in the fall of 2014 for all three schools.
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Chicago Public Schools Adopting “Afro-Centric” Curriculum For All Students

Published: 27 April 2014.
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This news should come as no surprise to anyone who is paying attention to the racist and communist leader of the Chicago teachers union. Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union is a despicable racist. Of course, she gets a pass for making inflamatory racist comments like "Rich White People" are to blame for Chicago Schools woes." [See below for one of the most racist video rants you will ever see.]



The Chicago Public School system is changing their curriculum to adopt an “Afro-centric” theme.

The curriculum spans kindergarten through the tenth grade and incorporates all core academic disciplines.

The school system began developing the program – called IAAAS, an acronym for the Interdisciplinary African and African-American Studies – after a push from groups that merely wanted public schools to offer one class on African-American history. But Chicago Public Schools went beyond that, implementing the curriculum in literacy, math, science, social sciences, the arts, physical education and health.

“The law said it had to be one unit devoted to the history of African-Americans,” Annette Gurley, CPS chief officer of teaching and learning told the Chicago Tribune in 2013. “What we’ve done is we’ve taken it throughout the year for all subjects, not just one subject.”

The curriculum includes a link to TheAfrican.com, a site that claims the world will end soon and that President Obama is “merely another trick of the beast of the 4th Kingdom.” It also contains lots of Anti-Semitic material.

The Chicago curriculum topic discussed at TheAfrican.com is “The Black Athena,” a book written by historian Martin Bernal. Sixth and ninth grade Chicago students will discuss the book and an accompanying full-length Youtube documentary.

In the work, Bernal claimed that ancient Greeks stole much of its civilization from Egypt, which, Bernal asserts, was populated by blacks. The Chicago curriculum entertains rebuttals to Bernal’s theory but skews heavily in its favor.

Ron Fritze, a historian, the dean of Athens State University, and author of the book “Invented Knowledge,” says that Bernal’s theories are not historically accurate and have no place in Chicago schools.

“As a historian and an educator, I am very troubled by the notion of [students] in Chicago city schools spending five weeks on Bernal’s ideas,” Fritze told TheDCNF.

“His ideas are outliers of scholarship and have been largely discredited among other scholars,” said Fritze, noting that few scholars from Egypt or even China and Japan subscribe to Bernal’s theories.

Fritze says that while most of Bernal’s critics had proven expertise in Classical studies, ancient history, and Egyptology, most of his supporters were not specialized in those fields.

“But they were people who found his ideas to be politically attractive,” said Fritze.

The eighth grade literacy section unit, titled “Being an Advocate to Social Justice,” directs students to the website for the American Civil Liberties Union. It also includes a poem titled “Racism is Around Me Everywhere,” cartoons from the website LeftyCartoons.com, and it encourages discussion of Attorney General Eric Holder’s infamous “nation of cowards” quote.

The ninth grade literacy section encompasses a study of the Pan African Movement. Teachers are encouraged to engage their students in debate over voluntary segregation. “Have someone read the following resolution, Resolved:

voluntary segregation promotes growth in a diverse community. Teams then participate in a graded formal debate.”

Tenth graders are introduced to “critical race theory,” which holds that institutional racism and white privilege are pervasive throughout society.

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