Survey shows Chicago parents want change in the citys education system

02/28/2013

Chicagoans are ready for education reform.

CPS school closings: the writing was on the wall

02/28/2013

Chicago Public Schools on Thursday announced the largest school shakeup in the nation: closing 54 schools and 61 buildings, jostling 30,000 kids and leaving the future of more than 1,000 teachers unclear

CPS school closings: One of the largest mass school shutdowns in U.S. history

By Hilary Gowins

02/28/2013

By now youve probably heard that Chicago Public Schools will be closing 54 schools and 61 buildings total.

Contagion: Strike fever spreads across Illinois

By Paul Kersey

02/04/2013

[updated Feb. 4, 2013] With the Chicago Teachers Union having waged a largely successful strike against the Chicago Public Schools, we can expect to see other public school unions, and maybe other government employee unions, following their example. Strikes allow unions to preserve costly wages and benefits, or block needed reforms, by shutting down...

High-paid union elite often use teachers to promote their agendas

12/31/2012

According to union financial reports filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, there are more than 120 employees of the Illinois Education Association, or IEA, and the Illinois Federation of Teachers, or IFT, earning more than $100,000.

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School choice breeds innovation, success

12/31/2012

Organizations such as School of One which operates a math program at three New York City public middle schools are proving that innovation can occur in a public education system that is resistant to change.

School choice gives parents, students the freedom to flourish

12/31/2012

Choice means giving parents the right to decide which educational option is best for their children, whether it be public schools, charter schools, private schools, online learning or homeschooling.

Contagion 2.0: Did you really think it was over?

12/31/2012

The holidays are over and kids have been back in school for weeks. But students in Grayslake District 46 are back at home now that teachers are on strike.

TAGS: unions

CTU’s school closing delusions

12/31/2012

The newest education fight in Chicago is over school closings.

CTU’s answer for failing schools: Blame the ‘fat cats’

By Paul Kersey

12/29/2012

It is a fairly standard piece of Alinskyite strategy: make the argument about personalities rather than principles or results. Find an enemy and make the whole fight about him or her or it. As progressive icon and “Rules for Radicals” author Saul Alinsky himself put it, “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize...

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Survey shows Chicago parents want change in the citys education system

CPS school closings: the writing was on the wall

CPS school closings: One of the largest mass school shutdowns in U.S. history

Contagion: Strike fever spreads across Illinois

High-paid union elite often use teachers to promote their agendas

School choice breeds innovation, success

School choice gives parents, students the freedom to flourish

Contagion 2.0: Did you really think it was over?

CTU’s school closing delusions

CTU’s answer for failing schools: Blame the ‘fat cats’

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