Sunday, October 28, 2012

Open Letter to Newark Teachers

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The Newark Teachers Union is facing a critical contract vote that was supposed to be Monday, October 28th although the hurricane is pushing ...
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Saturday, October 6, 2012

"Real parents"

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The director of Education Reform Now which is a differently named part of Democrats for Education Reform, Ms. Nieves Huffman recently wrote...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Coming Home

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In a few minutes, like 3.8 million other educators nationwide, I will enter my classroom to teach a handful of the 55 million students in ou...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

A student addresses Rahm's dismissal of air conditioning as a real issue

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The following student comment on Facebook has 16,304 likes: Hi, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, I am a student at Lincoln Park High School, and my fa...
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Contingency centers: A view from the inside

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In many ways, our strike in Chicago is about differing view of public education. The Mayor has always pushed two tiered education between ...
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Strike week 2: Democracy takes time, but it's the opposite of what's hurting our kids

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Last week, I outlined some of the many reasons why we as Chicago teachers were fed up and ready to go on strike . More than just the strik...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

CNN: My view: From the picket lines

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CNN has posted my latest piece this morning. It deals with the transition from anger at the injustice to shared struggle as the community an...
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