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Posted inNews & Politics

Paul Vallas rubs shoulders with the far right 

by Kelly Garcia July 29, 2022August 3, 2022

The mayoral candidate spoke at a fundraiser for a group that has promoted transphobic rhetoric.

Posted inNews

Sun and solidarity

by Reader staff April 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Photos from the Reader editorial union’s rally on April 21, 2022.

Posted inFilm

‘If we burn out, who’s here for the kids?’

by Gretchen Sterba March 22, 2022April 1, 2022

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

by Adam M. Rhodes February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

Nurses say conditions remain dire more than a month after a standoff with the mayor.

She was the worst fears of the powers that be—a powerful Black leader who wasn’t afraid to tell it like it is.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Now they love her

by Ben Joravsky February 10, 2021August 18, 2021

Karen Lewis knew you don’t make a lot of friends in high places when you stand up for teachers and poor kids.

Mayor Lightfoot and CPS officials almost have me persuaded to wait out the pandemic in a grade-school cafeteria. It's perfectly safe!
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Back to the petri dish

by Ben Joravsky January 27, 2021August 18, 2021

With threats of termination, Mayor Lightfoot and Janice Jackson welcome teachers back to the classroom.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The first step

by Ben Joravsky November 5, 2019August 18, 2021

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

by Ben Joravsky October 30, 2019August 18, 2021

To settle the teachers’ strike Mayor Lightfoot should scrape some more “mayonnaise” from the TIF slush fund.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Feast to famine

by Ben Joravsky October 22, 2019August 18, 2021

Just last year Chicago had billions for Amazon but now it’s suddenly too broke for schoolkids.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The show goes on

by Ben Joravsky October 16, 2019August 18, 2021

One era ends and another begins for our beloved First Tuesdays.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Size matters

by Ben Joravsky October 9, 2019August 18, 2021

Chicago teachers have almost no relief for overcrowded classrooms.

Posted inNews & Politics

Sexual miseducation

by Maya Dukmasova July 24, 2019August 18, 2021

In an era of unprecedented attention to gender violence, Latinx organizers demand CPS address shortcomings.

Posted inNews & Politics

A Visual Voter’s Guide

by Sarah-Ji November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.

Posted inMusic

The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires

by Kim Kelly April 26, 2018August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

You can thank Karen Lewis for the national wave of teacher insurrections

by Ben Joravsky April 5, 2018August 18, 2021

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.

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