Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks to 18,000 supporters on Labor Day | Seattle Education

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks to 18,000 supporters on Labor Day | Seattle Education:

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks to 18,000 supporters on Labor Day

from Seattle Education 2010 by seattleducation2011

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis spoke to 18,00 supporters yesterday in Chicago’s Daley Plaza and she did not mince her words.
Chicago was the birthplace of education reform as we know it with then CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan, and his failed Renaissance 2010 program to privatize the public education system in Chicago. For an in-depth look at how the program began and who was behind it, see Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality? and Catalyst In-Depth: Renaissance 2010.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel

When you hear the teachers in Chicago shouting “Enough is enough!” it is because they and their students have