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9/14/2012 8:06:46 AM CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel received far more money in campaign donations from wealthy financiers and entrepreneurs backing school reform than from unions, leaving him freer to confront the city's teachers than some fellow Democrats, an examination of donations to his 2011 campaign shows. The city's 29,000 teachers have been on strike since Monday, halting classes in the country's third-largest school district, over contract negotiations that are snagged on job security and Emanuel's plan to rate teachers based on students' standardized test scores. ... 9/14/2012 7:54:39 AM
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9/14/2012 7:18:47 AM GOLDEN, Colo. - President Obama today credited an affordable college education with helping a "mixed kid from Hawaii" and a "little black girl from the South Side of Chicago" make history in the White House. "Education was a gateway of opportunity for me," Obama told... 9/14/2012 6:45:53 AM
9/14/2012 5:40:00 AM COMMENTARY | I do not have children in the Chicago Public School system, but that doesn't mean I, like thousands of other Chicagoans, don't care about the city's second teachers strike in 25 years. The teachers strike affects us all, from the teachers on the picket line to the students forced to stay home to the companies scrambling to make due without their parents. 9/14/2012 4:59:34 AM CHICAGO (Reuters) - With a Chicago Public School teachers strike in its fourth day on Thursday, some parents are looking into possible alternatives including charter or private schools. "We're seeing some uptick in inquiries," said Sister Mary Paul McCaughey, superintendent of Catholic Schools at the Archdiocese of Chicago. UNO Charter School Network, which runs non-union, publicly-funded schools, has taken in 30 new students since the strike by 29,000 public school teachers was announced, according to CEO Juan Rangel of the United Neighborhood Organization, a Latino community group. ... 9/14/2012 2:42:00 AM The Chicago teachers' strike could have political implications this election season even if it ends soon. 9/13/2012 11:32:44 PM Most schools and some universities have been closed after teachers across the country went on a one-day strike to demand higher pay. 9/13/2012 10:27:35 PM
9/13/2012 9:59:02 PM CHICAGO (Reuters) - Karen Lewis, the fiery, frumpy former teacher leading striking Chicago teachers, has carefully built support for her cause of challenging education orthodoxy through community organizing in poor neighborhoods of the inner city. Critics call her a throwback to the blustering, confrontational union bosses of the past. School district and union officials have said she was spoiling for a bare-knuckled fight in a town with a long history of union activism. ... 9/13/2012 8:00:41 PM As Chicago teachers walk the picket lines, their union and the city's school district resumed negotiating a new contract that includes bigger salaries, more benefits, revised job security measures and revamped teacher evaluations. Thursday is the fourth day of the strike. Here is a breakdown of the issues on the table: 9/13/2012 7:26:29 AM
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9/13/2012 6:28:51 AM With the Chicago teacher's strike entering its third day, both sides appear determined to settle matters behind closed doors and not in a courtroom, even though the city has authority to take the fight there – though at significant political risk, legal experts say. 9/13/2012 5:09:56 AM
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9/13/2012 1:59:53 AM The Boston Teachers Union and the city have reached a tentative contract agreement after more than two years of negotiations. 9/13/2012 12:26:10 AM Take a deep breath and try to relax. This won't be as bad as you think. That goes for parents as well as students. Finding the college that's best for you is an education in itself. It's a journey--physical, intellectual, and emotional--that will help you learn about yourself and your family, as well as that scary but necessary American subculture we call higher education. 9/12/2012 11:38:27 PM There are many reasons middle-class Americans feel squeezed right now: The high unemployment rate (8.1 percent), rising cost of college tuition, or the fact that close to one-third of homeowners are underwater. But it's a combination of three other factors that led the Pew Research Center to label the 2000s a "lost decade" for the middle-class: declining household income, shrinking net worth, and a smaller middle class. 9/12/2012 11:11:17 PM The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search. 9/12/2012 9:24:14 PM
9/12/2012 9:06:29 PM out Wednesday — looks pretty much the same as a decade ago, with very few exceptions. 9/12/2012 3:00:00 PM Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis walks, talks and barks like a rootsy Occupy Wall Street activist. But this Big Labor loudmouth who's leading the abandonment of nearly 400,000 schoolchildren in the Windy City is just another power-grabbing union fat cat. 9/12/2012 3:00:00 PM function toggle() {var ele = document.getElementById("toggleText");if(ele.style.display == "block") { ele.style.display = "none"; }else {ele.style.display = "block";}} Embed This Infographic on Your SiteVia: TakePart.comTake Action: Support These Classrooms in Need with The TakePart Back-to-School Challengefunction youtubefix() { var again = 0; if (jQuery('.MagicZoomPlus').length != 0) { jQuery('.MagicZoomPlus').click(function () { jQuery('#youtube_block').hide(); }); again++; } if (jQuery('.MagicThumb-expanded').length != 0) { jQuery('.MagicThumb-expanded'). ... 9/12/2012 11:36:41 AM
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9/12/2012 5:02:28 AM MIAMI (Reuters) - The largest operator of online schools in the United States is being investigated by the Florida Department of Education over allegations the company may employ teachers who are not properly certified, a state official said on Tuesday. K12, a company founded by former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett, is one of a dozen for-profit companies operating full-time, online public elementary and high schools across the country. ... 9/12/2012 4:46:59 AM Everyone knows a teacher strike is bad for a mayor, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel surely never envisioned that his attempts to push through certain education reforms would lead to this. 9/12/2012 4:42:55 AM
9/12/2012 4:40:00 AM According to NBC Chicago, the Chicago teachers are continuing their strike for a second day in a row as negotiations press onward. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) officials are still in talks with union leaders, but the two parties have to reach an agreement on two major points, specifically teacher evaluations and job security for union members at public schools. 9/12/2012 4:27:01 AM The president of the Chicago Teachers Union says teachers and the school district are still far apart in their contract dispute and that the walkout will almost certainly extend into a third day on Wednesday. 9/12/2012 4:12:00 AM COMMENTARY | CHICAGO -- The Chicago teachers union turned its backs on the city's students when they went on strike Monday. It is not a big surprise they walked off the job and held up traffic on Clark Street during rush hour. We all know the CTU leadership values their pocketbooks more than their profession. Chicago is nationally known for its underachieving public schools, so hearing about a teachers strike drew little more than a shrug across the country. It's not like award-winning Harvard teachers walked out on their classrooms. 9/12/2012 3:57:00 AM COMMENTARY | CHICAGO -- As the teachers strike heads into its second day, it appears that the two sides are no closer to reaching a deal that would send our kids back to school. The Tribune reports that job security is at the heart of the debate, with a possible 6,000 jobs at stake. Despite the effect the strike has had on parents so far, I support the teachers in their battle to save their jobs, and so should other Chicago parents. 9/12/2012 3:55:00 AM FIRST PERSON | CHICAGO -- I'm not sure when the people who smile every morning as kids pile into their classrooms, who decorate for Halloween and coax reticent teenagers into deep discussions became the enemy. Suddenly, they are milking the taxpayer through the elaborate scheme of educating their children. They are "harming" children by striking for the express purpose of educating children. 9/12/2012 3:45:51 AM
9/11/2012 10:05:00 PM A union battle in the Windy City has exploded onto the national stage, with implications for the future of organized labor and the presidential raceMore than 26,000 teachers in Chicago are on strike for a second day, following a breakdown of negotiations between the city's powerful teaching unions and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. ... Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved |
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