Chicago
Chicago teachers educate a nation
September 21, 2012It was nine days that shook Chicago, the 2012 teachers' strike changed the nation.
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Chicago teachers to vote Sunday on ending strike
September 14, 2012CHICAGO- Teachers here will vote on Sunday, Sept. 16, whether to continue or end the weeklong strike. Some 800 elected union delegates met today and decided they needed to see - in writing - more details...
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In Chicago, a movement is born to reclaim public education
September 13, 2012Parents, students and community groups, whose pent up outrage at school privatization dictated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been unleashed by the strike, joined teachers on the picket lines.
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Chicago teachers agree: Children do deserve better
September 11, 2012The kids of Chicago deserve better. They deserve a mayor who doesn't use them as political props.
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Why we need a massive jobs program
August 29, 2012Seven years later, the downtown and North Side sections still had pockets of the upwardly mobile, but the hustle and bustle had definitely diminished.
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