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In These Times
09-11-2012, 04:45 AM
Across mainstream media and through the megaphone of city government, Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers have been consistently demonized and criticized for everything from self-serving greed to negligence of their duties to lack of care and respect for students.
Mayor Emanuel and his hand-picked school board—stacked with millionaires and former charter administrators—along with CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard, have continued to use their dominion over the school system to apply a corporate model of school reform to the Chicago Public Schools.


More... (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/13802/four_reasons_chicagos_teachers_are_on_strike/)
Kid of the Black Hole
09-11-2012, 09:03 AM
Across mainstream media and through the megaphone of city government, Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers have been consistently demonized and criticized for everything from self-serving greed to negligence of their duties to lack of care and respect for students.
Mayor Emanuel and his hand-picked school board—stacked with millionaires and former charter administrators—along with CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard, have continued to use their dominion over the school system to apply a corporate model of school reform to the Chicago Public Schools.


More... (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/13802/four_reasons_chicagos_teachers_are_on_strike/)

Been hearing lots about this and I keep wondering where BLF is. A glaring omission in this story when it refers to "Emmanuel, Brizard, Duncan and their ilk"..how do you forget Barry Bummer?
blindpig
09-11-2012, 11:30 AM
Whatever their differences, when it comes to their hatred for the working class, the two parties are entirely united. The Republicans are no less aware than the Democrats that a defeat of the Chicago teachers’ struggle is essential for carrying out the bipartisan policy of dismantling public education. And after decades in which the class struggle has been artificially suppressed with the help of the trade unions, the ruling elite views any working class resistance as intolerable, if not criminal.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/chic-s11.shtml