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Rahm Emanuel
Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and His Call to Fix Democracy
"Only the mass can get America out of the me," is the message novelist Theodore Dreiser put forth over a century ago, and it is still true today.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s War on Teachers and Children
School closures around the country have been justified by rationales of budget necessity and improvements in education outcomes, but in Chicago as elsewhere communities see no cost savings and …
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What We Owe Michael Hastings
At the time I met him, he was probably by far the most well-known journalist I'd encountered personally. And yet he was so much more approachable and humble than …
Chicago to Shutter 50 Public Schools: Is Historic Mass Closure an Experiment in Privatization?
Massive school closings in Chicago may help the deficit, at the cost of student's well being.
AUSL Turnarounds Called Ineffective, Expensive
As CPS use a costly and ineffective program to turn around schools, placing political favor over the needs to students.
Shocking Rahm’s Shock Doctrine
Chicago teachers have beaten their anti-education, anti-union mayor before. And they could do it again.
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Standing Up for Teachers
Collective bargaining is not the problem, and taking that right away from teachers will not fix the schools.
Striking Neoliberalism in Chicago
Under a new assessment system that strongly ties teacher evaluations to student test scores, the city is threatening to put
A Tale of Two Chicagos: Teachers Protest Unequal System
In a system as segregated as Chicago Public Schools, where a quarter of a million students go to schools where 90 percent or more of their classmates are black …
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Strike Is the Best Lesson Chicago Teachers Union Could Have Planned
Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.