Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts

Friday, March 15, 2013

Teachers Prepare 'Civil Disobedience' Tactics to Fight School Closings | Common Dreams

Teachers Prepare 'Civil Disobedience' Tactics to Fight School Closings | Common Dreams
"An announcement from Chicago this week reveals that teachers are preparing to ramp up their fight to save the shuttering of as many as 129 schools across the city, putting their bodies on the line in order to fight back on behalf of their students and the communities where they teach."

Friday, September 14, 2012

DeMint Likens Teachers Striking In Chicago To ‘Thugs’ In The Middle East

DeMint Likens Teachers Striking In Chicago To ‘Thugs’ In The Middle East: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) jokingly compared the teachers strike in Chicago to the unrest in the Middle East during a speech at the Values Voters summit Friday morning. “You know, we had a lot of bad news this week,” DeMint began. “On my way over, I was reading another story about a distant place where [...]/p