Chicago Teacher Union fighting for Dignity in Public Education
This should have been posted three weeks ago when I wrote it, and my readers are due for an update, and I promise to write more soon. However, my priorities lie with my members on the picket line until we see this through.
Adam
Friends and Family across the United States-
Adam
Friends and Family across the United States-
As most of you know Chicago Teachers Union has been in a fight to win a contract that requests not only fair compensation, but also great teaching and learning conditions in the face of mass privatization and charterization. Our mayor has promised 250 more charter schools in place of traditional public schools. Our mayor has promised more testing for our kids, and rating teachers based on those tests. Our mayor has promised merit pay, and a longer day. This is also a mayor who has seen a 70% increase in the murder rate in Chicago in only one years’ time, and an increase in public dollars to private corporations.
We are fighting for experienced teachers over expendable ones; fair pay for longer days; for the arts, P.E.,