In 3 years, can 6,000 educators become incompetent? Would 6,000 educators decide to retire all at once? Since the year 2000, over 10,000 have lost their jobs. The same is true for almost every large urban school district highly populated by African Americans. Cities like New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia and many more have been affected.
Nationwide over 100,000 African American teachers have been terminated. Massive termination of African-American teachers since the late 1990s needs an explanation. We request the following:
- An investigation into the massive terminations of African-American teachers (in Chicago and across America);
- An investigation on how E3s or Corrective Actions in all states are executed;
- An investigation on possible repercussions to African American teachers who advocated against the expulsions and suspensions of Black students;
- An investigation on pseudo-evaluations performed on African American teachers who cared to get involved and helped students get the resources the needed;
- An investigation into practices that attorneys used that are not in compliance with the law, e.g., bringing unsubstantiated charges against African American teachers;
- An investigation into why thousands of African American teachers who paid union dues over several decades were unable to get due process support from our collective bargaining units. In other words, the unions have not protected us.