Testing Teacher Sycophancy in Chicago
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| CPS Imperial Guard With Teacher Slave (from Flickr ewen and donabel) |
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is entering negotiations for their new contract. On the table are numerous assaults on their working conditions, including a longer school day. However, they are also locked in a battle with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Board of Education over a standardized test being used to screen out would be teachers who are pro-union, independently minded, or willing to fight the status quo in the interests of their students or their colleagues’ working conditions.
The test is called TeacherFit and it was specially designed for the Chicago Public Schools