Monday, September 10, 2012

Chicago Teachers Strike: Additional links and information | Seattle Education

Chicago Teachers Strike: Additional links and information | Seattle Education:


Chicago Teachers Strike: Additional links and information

Chicago teachers in a picket line outside the headquarters of Chicago Public Schools. September 10, 2012.
As I posted this morningDemocracy Now had a great program on the Chicago teachers’ strike.
Teachers outside the Chicago Public Schools headquarters.
Substance News, which is providing great coverage of the strike also, started off with the article Strike begins.
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.
More information is beginning to appear online and to follow are links to the best information that I have found so far.
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.
For some great stories from teachers and parents about why they support the strike, check out The meaning of our struggle in Chicago.
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