What: CTU and SEIU members picket and protest CPS proposed cuts

When: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2004

Where: Chicago Board of Education Offices 125 South Clark Street

CPS Unions and Parents Begin Fight Against Proposed Cuts
Vow “No Balancing of Budget Gap on Backs of Neediest Students or Staff”

Chicago (May 25) Calling the proposed CPS budget cuts “an unconscionable attack on the city’s most vulnerable students” and accusing the Board of Education of a “commitment gap,” CTU President Deborah Lynch will be joined by dozens of CTU and SEIU members as they launch their fight against the loss of front line jobs announced by the CPS.

“Weeks ago we presented Arne Duncan with an Early Retirement plan that would have saved the Board nearly 100 million each year while costing tax payers nothing. Instead of working with us to pass that Early Retirement legislation, Duncan has chosen to meet his supposed budget gap, not by cutting the nearly $200 million he has spent in the last year on 25 new “administrative area offices, but by cutting staff that serve Chicago’s neediest students – special ed and preschools. This is an unconscionable move that we will fight with every means at our disposal”.


















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