Another poll, conducted three days into the strike, again finds a majority in favor of the teachers—and substantial divides between CPS and non-CPS parents, which parallel the demographics of CPS students.
Reading Bob Woodward’s new book, The Price of Politics, this weekend—while the battle between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis raged—I was reminded that the White House Rahm who tried to bully and bulldoze Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats into supporting his boss’s agenda was essentially the same City Hall Rahm who—although not sitting at the negotiating table—was the city’s public face of the ugly lead-up to the ongoing teachers strike…
Looking at Chicago Public Schools in the context of other large urban school districts: how we compare in terms of poverty, and high school graduation rates, to our peers.
Franchise rankings from ESPN and Bloomberg Businessweek both rate the Cubs in the cellar of all MLB and all four major-sports franchises—but no matter how you cut it, they’re not the worst.
How the once formidable Fighting Irish became the Midwest’s lovable losers
How much CPS teachers make, compared to the average Chicagoan, Chicagoans with college and graduate degrees, big-city teachers, and suburban teachers.
Very little of the negotiations that led to Chicago Teachers Union strike have to do with pay, and teachers on the front lines don’t seem concerned about it. The issues are larger and less concrete, which makes negotiations difficult.
Rahm Emanuel and CTU head Karen Lewis are both addressing the legacies of their predecessors; the physical residue of reform; teacher-on-the-street takes; the national significance for politics and labor; and more
For a few hours this morning, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post all had something in common on this the 11th anniversary of 9/11: Their top sections featured stories of the poisonous battle between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Public Schools versus Karen Lewis and the Chicago Teachers Union. The result is a huge stain on Chicago…
Is the teachers strike legal, and if not, what’s Rahm going to do about it?; Chicago teachers answer your questions on Reddit; skepticism about value-added modeling; and more
