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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Chicago is at the center of a teacher storm. « Fred Klonsky

Chicago is at the center of a teacher storm. « Fred Klonsky:


Chicago is at the center of a teacher storm.

What does a real teacher union look like? This is what a real teacher union looks like.
“It’s not like the old days,” IEA President Cinda Klickna said to me in explanation of why the IEA wasn’t doing a very good job of mobilizing members earlier this year, canceling a mass rally in Springfield with the bogus excuse of Capitol construction.
Recent attempts to take credit for the local demonstrations at many legislators offices are pretty smelly.
Yesterday, the young dynamic leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union took a page from those old days and