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.
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Will Rauner stick it to Rahm by favoring Karen Lewis on the elected school board issue?
As a bill that would give Chicago an elected school board moves toward Governor Bruce Rauner’s desk, he has to decide which of his adversaries he’ll smite.
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Chicago’s school board needs watchdogs, not Rahm’s lapdogs
An elected school board could stop the mayor from wasting money.
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Emanuel lobbied feds to approve airline merger, pocketed $53,000 campaign contribution
ProPublica reminds us what the ‘old’ Rahm was like.
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Dipping into TIF accounts to avoid a teachers’ strike, Mayor Rahm finally does the right thing
For years Reader columnist Ben Joravsky has been pushing the mayor to do just this.