At an Englewood elementary school, teachers and staff describe working conditions that hurt kids most.
Tag: teachers strike
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Busted priorities
Even with a teachers’ strike looming, the city is investing in the wrong things.
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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.
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Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS’s longer school day
Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS’s longer school day
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Fighting for the right to fire bad teachers—and good ones too
The story of the UNO charter school teacher dismissed despite doing his job with “dignity”
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Poverty still rising in Chicago
In a segregated city, growing poverty is easy to ignore
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Democracy is messy—welcome to the teachers’ union
Why teachers’ union politics gets a little messy
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Spare an apostrophe for the Chicago Teachers Union
Looking for a 16 percent increase in punctuation
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Why Chicago teachers hate Rahm
Why Chicago teachers hate Rahm, and how their union got to the point of a strike
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President Obama: please save our schools from Mayor Rahm
President Obama—or someone close to the president—should call Mayor Emanuel and get him to end this strike