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CTA'S PRESIDENT KAREN LEWIS & THE RELENTLESS ATTACK ON PUBLIC EDUCATION

by Leonard Isenberg

Take a moment and listen to Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis talk about "the class war between rich and poor in Chicago, Los Angeles, and the rest of the country" that is being carried out in our public schools that has made the "American dream a scary nightmare." It is hard to be one nation under g-d or under anything that even remotely resembles an equitable democracy without the fundamentally important institution of public education, which is under unrelenting siege. Without public education, vacuous and superficial neoliberal rhetoric that refers to 21st century robber barons as "job creators" passes without scrutiny or exception that could only be exercised by fully sentient beings who see themselves and all around them through the perspective which that education has given them. The goal must be to be one among equals, who