Chicago Teachers Union Strike: A Proxy for Deep Teacher-Parent Dissatisfaction With Current Education Policy
This is a must-read from The Nation on why the Chicago teacher’s strike is much more than a local issue. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel share roots in the city that was Obama’s training ground as a politician, and so they’re deserved targets as well as proxies for all that many teachers and parents find wrong with the White House’s federal education policies.
And here, Diane Ravitch in The New York Review of Books describes what’s at stake in rejecting corporate education from the heart of “ed reform” in the nation’s third largest school district:
And here, Diane Ravitch in The New York Review of Books describes what’s at stake in rejecting corporate education from the heart of “ed reform” in the nation’s third largest school district:
The strike has national significance because it concerns policies endorsed by the current administration; it also raises issues found all over the country. Not only in Chicago but in other