Teacher union

Duh....or blame the teachers' unions for all the ills of education, while saying the..corporation is the model to follow in reforming public schools?....

Are parents finally gaining a foothold in the battle for school choice? It is probably too early to call, but one thing is certain – parents are fighting back. For years, they have quietly requested that public schools give their children a decent education. They weren’t demanding little Einsteins, they just wanted their children to […]

Caring, united, democratic: CTU is nearly 30,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one. In every school and workplace, unity in action protects our members and the students we serve. Along with parents, students and community we advocate for the schools – and the city – that our students deserve. Learning, working and living conditions are not separate. Together, our Union wages a comprehensive fight.

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In less than two years, newly-elected leaders transformed the 27,000-member Chicago Teachers Union. Learn how they organized as rank-and-file members then ran for office to chart a new direction for their union. This book details how the engaged thousands of members to tackle problems on the job and to build a stewards network that became the backbone of their 2012 citywide strike. Find out how they worked with their communities, trained new leaders, and ran a contract campaign that became a…

Unions have always made America strong.

Most other professionals do not have to worry about another person’s free will affecting their livelihood. But (somehow) teachers do.