Posted tagged ‘Chicago Teacher’s Union’

Rahm vs. The Chicago Teachers

August 26, 2011

It’s been nearly a year since I posted to this blog.  I frankly considered it done.  I continued to leave it up for those who found previous postings useful while I used satire to comment on education elsewhere.   Satire is something I’m good at, but it doesn’t do a great job of encapsulating all my [...]

CTU Election 5/21

May 19, 2010

We’re down to the final two days before the Chicago teachers get to choose between business as usual union politics where we throw money at politicians and hope they save us and movement style union politics where we save ourselves.   If you have been following my sporadic postings since October you know that I took [...]

A Funny Thing Happened On the way to the Blog

April 15, 2010

I’ve missed a lot.   Charlie Crist did the right thing today in Florida and proved that just as not all Democrats are on our side, all Republicans are not the devil incarnate.  In Washington DC, there have been some very funny things going on with the books.  I haven’t covered either of these because election [...]

The Malcolm X Forum – Standing Up Together

January 11, 2010

On Saturday at Malcolm X College in Chicago, 400 people turned out in the cold and the snow to join together against the privatization of the Chicago public schools.  I was one of those people, but far from the most important.  I promoted the event and I wrote an article for the newsletter that CORE [...]


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