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Fewer than 5 CPS schools expected to be spared
Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down....
Tags: Walter Burnett, Jr., Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Teachers Union, Hearing Impairment, Humboldt Park
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Chicago police arrest two dozen at school closing protest
ReutersBy Renita D. Young CHICAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - Chicago police arrested about two dozen people on Monday who were protesting against the planned closure of 54 schools in the country's third-largest school district, ahead of a planned Wednesday vote on the...Tags: Lobbying, Chicago Teachers Union, Politics, Teachers, Chicago City Hall
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Teachers elect Lewis to 2nd term as CTU head
Tribune reporterChicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, an often controversial leader who took on Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a strike last fall and has been leading the fight against the district’s plan to close schools, was reelected to a second three-year term...Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Career and Workplace, Politics, Teachers
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Chicago Teachers Union re-elects Karen Lewis
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, an often controversial figure who took on Mayor Rahm Emanuel by leading a seven-day strike last fall, was easily re-elected to a second three-year term Friday, according to unofficial results released by the...Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, Career and Workplace, Politics, Merchandise Mart, Unions
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Union sues Chicago, claims racism behind school closure plans
ReutersBy Greg McCune CHICAGO, May 15 (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union sued the nation's third-largest school district on Wednesday, saying a plan to close 54 schools this year discriminates against African-American children and those with disabilities....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Teachers Union, Litigation, Career and Workplace, Justice System
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3 days of marches against school closings planned
With just over a week before the Chicago Board of Education votes on a proposal to close 54 schools, the Chicago Teachers Union and other activist groups said Monday they would hold marches over three days to protest the plan. The marches will begin...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, Politics, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Activism
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
Change of SubjectFriday's print column A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the...... -
Voice of the People, May. 10
Union business This is in response to "My challenge to Karen Lewis" (Perspective, April 26), by Tanya Saunders-Wolffe, a counselor at Jesse Owens Community Academy on the Far South Side. Why is the Chicago Tribune newspaper a venue for proselytizing...Tags: Education, Mother's Day, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools, Teachers
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One vote, many lives
The Chicago City Council will vote on many items Wednesday. None likely will be more important than the zoning change on tap for the property at 2245 W. Pershing Road. That is where Concept Schools, a top-quality charter operator, wants to open the...
Tags: Education, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago City Council, Chicago Teachers Union, Politics
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Emanuel doubles down as year 2 ends
Surrounded by kids as he accepted money from a soft-drink company for nutrition and exercise classes, Rahm Emanuel was asked if it might make more sense for children's health to take a harder line on the sale of sugary drinks. "I'm here about making...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools, Politics
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Open thread: The Weeks in Review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup of...... -
My challenge to Karen Lewis
A year ago Chicago teachers, clinicians, paraprofessionals and parents hoped that their strength in numbers and unity would yield the legislative action and contract settlement needed to remedy the problems teachers face in the classroom —...
Tags: Public Schools, Education, Chicago Public Schools, Politics, Career and Workplace
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