At the risk of making you think I’m weirder than you may already think I am . . . Sometimes when walking alone late at night, I talk to friends and family who have died. Been doing it for a couple of years now. Going back to the pandemic when the streets were so deserted […]
Tag: Chicago Teachers Union
Posted inFilm
‘If we burn out, who’s here for the kids?’
The problems with public schools seem like a broken record, but leave it to the NBC hit show Abbott Elementary, perhaps premiering at the right time . . . to make people think critically about the state of education in America’s major cities.
Posted inNews & Politics
CPS nurses are exhausted
Nurses say conditions remain dire more than a month after a standoff with the mayor.
Posted inOn Politics
MAGA science
Having spent the better part of the last week closely following the showdown between CPS and its teachers, I’ve concluded there’s no way Mayor Lightfoot truly believes the positions she’s been taking. Not unless the mayor—who ran as a progressive—has suddenly transformed into a Chicago version of Ron DeSantis, ’cause the stuff she’s been spouting […]
Posted inFood & Drink
The city’s first food equity council works to feed everyone
The group is reexamining food distribution through a racial equity lens while fighting for long-term systemic change.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Now they love her
Karen Lewis knew you don’t make a lot of friends in high places when you stand up for teachers and poor kids.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
So outrageous
It’s hard to get outraged about the Steans-to-Cassidy handoff when Marjorie Taylor Greene’s on the scene.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Back to the petri dish
With threats of termination, Mayor Lightfoot and Janice Jackson welcome teachers back to the classroom.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
To trust or not to trust . . .
Teachers, parents, and students have to decide if CPS can keep COVID-19 out of the classroom.
Posted inNews & Politics
From soldier to worker
Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The first step
Thank you, Chicago teachers, for forcing the powers that be to take a small step toward doing the right thing.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The good old TIF mayonnaise jar
To settle the teachers’ strike Mayor Lightfoot should scrape some more “mayonnaise” from the TIF slush fund.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Feast to famine
Just last year Chicago had billions for Amazon but now it’s suddenly too broke for schoolkids.
Posted inNews & Politics
Striking teachers say paychecks are the least of their problems
At an Englewood elementary school, teachers and staff describe working conditions that hurt kids most.