Chicago Teachers' Union Victory Against Scapegoating Teachers
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Someone once said, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." That is true to the nth degree for teachers who have one of the most stressful jobs there is, but also must deal with a constant assault from LAUSD to try -- as I have said many times on this blog to scapegoat them -- for a system they have no control over. Well, while it is too early to tell, there might have been the first step toward turning this regrettable circumstances around in Chicago Public Schools, where its 30,000 teacher have just elected Karen Lewis to end the 40 year reign of business and politics as usual at their teachers' union.
If you would like to hear her comments, you can listen here.
Let me take this opportunity to summarize some of the points she made in the speech so you can see that although we don't often have the time to appreciate it, the battles that we are fighting for real education reform are being waged in every major city throughout this