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Chicago Teachers Union averts strike, reaches tentative agreement
October 11, 2016“Every active member of the Chicago Teachers Union will have an opportunity to review and vote on the agreement before a contract is ratified.”
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Classroom teachers: “Trump effect” tells kids to be bullies
October 4, 2016Students held up pictures of Trump and yelled “build the wall” to taunt Latino students.
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Chicago teachers prepare for possible strike as students return to school
August 26, 2016Chicagoans and union members worry about two major concerns: how the district will access more funds, and how equitably those funds will be spent.
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Breakthrough: Private university graduate students can organize
August 24, 2016"We expect our relationship with the administration to be much easier; to establish a much more democratic process to determine our work conditions."
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Cleveland teachers battle excessive testing mandates
June 8, 2016"They don't want to face up to the real problem of poverty and generations of structural inequality."
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