Chicago Teachers Strike: Additional links and information
Chicago teachers in a picket line outside the headquarters of Chicago Public Schools. September 10, 2012.
Teachers outside the Chicago Public Schools headquarters.Reuters also posted an article this morning which is well worth a read: Chicago teachers walking picket lines on Monday, in a strike that has closed schools across the city, are taking on not just their combative mayor but a powerful education reform movement that is transforming public schools across the United States
Chicago students support their teachers on first day of strike.For the up to the minute information on what’s happening on the ground, check out:
Chicago Teachers’ Union twitter feed
The Chicago Teachers’ Union website
Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign Facebook page
Chicago Teachers Union members taking it to the streets.The United Opt Out National website has recommendations on what anyone can do to support our teachers and protect public education with their Action of the Week.
And finally a post from Teacher X
Why I’m striking, JCB
CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard is on record saying both that CTU leadership is deciding whether or not to strike, and that “everyone knows that a strike would only hurt our kids.”
I just wanted to educate my boss a little on the history of Chicago, as he is relatively new to the area. Chicago is founded on the hard daily struggle of working people. It is the birth of the labor movement—not a movement just for wages and benefits, but a movement that stopped child labor so that each of the kids in CPS schools could