The mayoral candidate spoke at a fundraiser for a group that has promoted transphobic rhetoric.
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‘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.
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CPS nurses are exhausted
Nurses say conditions remain dire more than a month after a standoff with the mayor.
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.
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Back to the petri dish
With threats of termination, Mayor Lightfoot and Janice Jackson welcome teachers back to the classroom.
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The first step
Thank you, Chicago teachers, for forcing the powers that be to take a small step toward doing the right thing.
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The good old TIF mayonnaise jar
To settle the teachers’ strike Mayor Lightfoot should scrape some more “mayonnaise” from the TIF slush fund.
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Feast to famine
Just last year Chicago had billions for Amazon but now it’s suddenly too broke for schoolkids.
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The show goes on
One era ends and another begins for our beloved First Tuesdays.
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Size matters
Chicago teachers have almost no relief for overcrowded classrooms.
Posted inNews & Politics
Sexual miseducation
In an era of unprecedented attention to gender violence, Latinx organizers demand CPS address shortcomings.
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A Visual Voter’s Guide
Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.
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The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires
Labor firebrand Joe Hill wrote some of the most enduring anthems in the IWW’s Little Red Songbook—and today’s activists carry on his legacy.
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You can thank Karen Lewis for the national wave of teacher insurrections
The red-shirt-wearing teacher activists from Kentucky, West Virginia, and Oklahoma obviously learned a thing or two from Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis.