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Consultants Substance and Vendors (FY 2005) Begins on P Inside: List of CPS consultants Substance and vendors (FY 2005) begins on p. 10 www.substancenews.com 5/06 Volume XXXI, No. 10, May 2006 $2.00 per copy Increased at least $34 million from 2004 to 2005! ‘Consultant’, ‘Vendor’ costs soar as Duncan claims huge budget ‘deficit’ Consultants and vendors on payroll also help Board of Facts about CPS vendors Education justify charter and and consultants: school closing programs to -- Many are never public, media... audited or supervised! -- No-bid contracts By George N. Schmidt account for tens of millions of dollars per year At the April 2006 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education, since Daley takeover of Board President Michael Scott re- public schools! peated what to many was a familiar -- CPS record-keeping is so refrain: “How can I make a fair de- poor that $ tens of millions cision when the community is obvi- go to entities without ously divided?” Scott asked in his public addresses or phone solicitous manner. numbers! The semi-rhetorical question -- Favored groups get was supposed to indicate to the tele- consultant and study vision audience which would later contracts in exchange for view the meeting that Scott was try- support for CPS policies! ing to balance competing claims on Since the beginning of the “Renaissance 2010” plan, Leon Finney (above right), chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Woodlawn Organization, has rou- -- While harassing teachers the public’s education dollar. Scott’s tinely appeared at Chicago Board of Education meetings praising the board’s school and other school workers, words had been repeated over and closings and talking to the press in favor of the “Renaissance.” Above, Finney was CPS officials ignore rampant over in the nearly five years since he interviewed by Sun-Times reporter Kate Grossman after he spoke at the May 22, problems in millions of became school board president — 2002, Board meeting. Identifying himself as part of the “Desegregation Monitoring dollars of outside spending! after a stint at privatizing services at Commission”, Finney warned that the Board had to do something about segre- the Chicago Park District — in 2001. gated schools. Finney then spoke in favor of the closing of Dodge, Terrell and -- A Chicago scandal ten In the carefully rehearsed version of Williams elementary schools, telling the Board that the move was necessary be- times bigger that ‘Hired reality, Michael Scott is representing cause of “desegregation” mandates. Those three 2002 school closings kicked off Truck’ is ignored in the a balance between rival factions in the “renaissance” in Chicago. What Finney has neglected to mention — and what corporate media because various communities, with Scott al- other newspapers have failed to report — is that Finney’s organization receives ‘news’ is really propaganda regular subsidies from CPS (and from other agencies with ties to the Daley admin- for the Daley ‘school ways seeking to do the right things istration). Between 2001 and 2005, Finney’s organization received $300,000 for “consulting” work from CPS. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt. reform miracle’! Continued on Page Ten May Day workers’ holiday returns home to Chicago... City Council to vote to halt Half million march for school immigrant, workers’ rights closings? By George N. Schmidt If the majority of the mem- bers of the Chicago City Council hold their purpose, by the end of June there will be a major show- down over the Chicago Board of Education’s unprecedented attack on public schools via its widely op- posed school closing activities. By the end of May, more than 40 alder- men out of 50 had signed on in sup- port of a resolution that will, in ef- fect, place a moratorium on school closings in Chicago. A vote is sched- uled for the June 28 City Council meeting. June 28 is also the day of the next Chicago Board of Education meeting. Four years ago, the Chicago Board of Education began an un- precedented attack on the city’s pub- lic schools beginningwhat has be- come the largest number of public school closings in American history. Although thousands of par- ents, teachers, students and their supporters have protested since the program of school closings was By 1:00 p.m. on May 1, 2006, the march for immigrant and workers rights stretched two miles to the west from the point launched by schools CEO Arne where this photo was taken at Jackson and Wells. A photo story of the historic march begins on Page Twenty. Continued on Page Thirty Page Two Substance May 2006 Editorials ™ Making ‘Hired Substance Truck’ look like a Monthly newspaper little red wagon... of public education in Chicago 5132 W. Berteau Ave. Chicago, IL 60641-1440 Daley’s Phone: 773-725-7502. FAX: 773 - 725 -7503. Email: Csubstance @ aol.com. school Website: www.substancenews.com Copyright © May 2006 All Rights Reserved privatization Substance™ (USPS # 016-073) is published monthly except July and August (with an additional special pension edition in mid- coverup October and a double issue February-March On February 22, 2006, the 2006) by Substance, Inc. Editorial offices at Chicago Board of Education, as 5132 W. Berteau Ave., Chicago, IL 60641- 1440. Address all correspondence to Sub- usual without discussion or debate, stance, 5132 W. Berteau Ave., Chicago, IL voted to pay UNO (United Neigh- 60641-1440. Periodicals postage paid at Chi- borhood Organizations) another cago, IL. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Substance, 5132 W. Berteau, Chi- $11.6 million to operate an expand- cago, IL 60641-1440. ing number of charter schools across Chicago. Also approved that same Editor-in-Chief George N. Schmidt day were motions to pay Perspec- Deputy Editor Rosagitta Podrovsky tives Charter School $1.5 million and Resistance Editor Susan Ohanian Managing Editor Sharon Schmidt the L.E.A.R.N. Charter School $2.2 Contributing Editor Grady C. Jordan million. Contributing Editor John M. DelVecchio On February 22, public at- tention was focused on the contro- Reporters: versial closing of five more public Chicago Board of Education: Lotty Blumenthal Chicago Local School Councils: Joseph Guzman schools — four outright and one Chicago Elementary News: Michael Brownstein, through “reconstitution” — as part Terry Czernik of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Ethicist (Retired): John George Cummins Chicago City News: Frank Coconate Daley’s unprecedented attack on Chicago High School News: Jesse Sharkey, public education in the third largest Jackson Potter, John Whitfield city in the USA. International News: E. Wayne Ross National Resistance News: Gloria Pipkin, Mary Even if some of our col- O’Brien, Rich Gibson, Carol Holst, Jim Horn, Juanita leagues in Chicago’s media had Doyon wanted to write about the illegal Research: Leo Gorenstein Chicago Retiree and Pension News: Rosemary expansion of Chicago’s charter Finnegan; Marybeth Foley, Al Korach, Jeri Winkels schools (the city is supposed to have audit of the Board’s financial books public education in Chicago. At the Sports: Dan Schmidt no more than 30 charter schools and (called the “Comprehensive Annual same time, as fierce supporters of Union News: Theresa D. Daniels, Allegra Podrovsky, Earl Kelly Prince now has nearly 50, depending upon Financial Report”) in January, when public education we’ve praised Web Wizards: Bob Simpson, Estelle Carol, Dana how one counts them), they would the report was distributed to mem- good things. Never before have we Simpson have been barred from the discus- bers of the Board — but denied to seen anything like the deregulation Cartoonist: Sandra Gordon Circulation & Advertising:Larry J.MacDonald sion in two ways. One, their editors members of the press at the time. and privatization lies that allow the Special Assignments: Dan Van Zile all know that charter schools are [Substance finally had to go to the current version of reality to go un- good and public schools are bad. Two, Board’s financial offices for a copy, challenged. Chicago’s public schools Policies. Confidentiality. Substance maintains the con- the information about the cost of fidentiality of news sources. Confidential information which was readily supplied]. Curi- and public servants working in them must be verifiable through additional news sources or Chicago’s charter schools is covered ously, the only mention of charter are subject to often withering slan- from public information. Call the editor for details. Mailing List. Substance does not share, sell, leak, or up by the Board of Education in all schools in the annual report comes ders. The city’s charter schools ride market its mailing list to anyone or any entity. of its financial and public reports. in a footnote and is part of the re- on a magic carpet of media propa- Policies Available. Copies of Substance policies on news development, letters, confidentiality, reproduction, and Elsewhere we’ve discussed, port that the auditors specifically say ganda, self prmotion, and uncritical mailing list security are available from Substance. Send ; SASA with $5.00 and ask for “The Substance Manual of at some length, how news is man- they are not verifying. adulation. Nonsense it is. Style, Usage, and Muckraking.” aged in Chicago to promote a 2) Charter schools are the Free lance materials. Unsolicited free-lance materials are subject to the policies of Substance. 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