Chicago Teachers Go On Strike...On behalf of all Public Education! - Wait, What?

Chicago Teachers Go On Strike...On behalf of all Public Education! - Wait, What?:

Chicago Teachers Go On Strike…On behalf of all Public Education!

by jonpelto

For the first time in twenty-five years, school teachers in Chicago are going on strike.

President Obama’s confidant and former chief of staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, set up this strike over two key issues – merit pay and evaluation.

700,000 students out of school, 30,000 teachers and support staff on the picket-line because Emanual, a Democrat, wants to introduce even more “education reform,” and this after Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan spent years privatizing and undermining Chicago’s public school system.

The spin from Mayor Emanual, like the spin from ConnCAN and the Connecticut “education reformers” is “we’re just trying to help the children.”