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Chicago Teachers Union to Continue Strike Chicago Teachers Union to Continue Strike The Chicago teachers union will continue its week-old strike in the nation's third-largest city, keeping thousands of students out of class ... Rated: 1.9756098     Duration: 77 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:06:21 PDT	No Deal Yet As Chicago Teachers Strike Continues No Deal Yet As Chicago Teachers Strike Continues Representatives from the Chicago Teachers Union and the district returned to the bargaining table today as the teachers' strike entered its ... Rated: 3.9333334     Duration: 105 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:54:29 PDT	Che-cago teachers strike riddled with radicals having a blast Che-cago teachers strike riddled with radicals having a blast Read more at EAGnews.org Produced by Jeremy Segal (aka RebelPundit) In its second day, the Chicago Teachers Union strike plays host to a teacher ... Rated: 3.965035     Duration: 236 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:19:57 PDT	Chicago Teachers Continue Strike as Mayor Seeks Injunction Chicago Teachers Continue Strike as Mayor Seeks Injunction After a week of striking in the nation's third-largest school district, Chicago teachers announced Sunday they plan to continue. Rated: -1     Duration: 78 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:16:40 PDT
Thousands Rally in Chicago Teachers Strike Against Corporate-Backed Education Reform Thousands Rally in Chicago Teachers Strike Against Corporate-Backed Education Reform DemocracyNow.org - School is out in Chicago for a second day as public school teachers continue their first strike in 25 years. Almost 30000 ... Rated: 4.84     Duration: 686 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:26:39 PDT	Chicago Teachers Strike Chicago Teachers Strike "On Monday, Chicago's public school students won't have any classes to go to. After weeks of negotiations, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ... Rated: 4.7950907     Duration: 495 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:15:28 PDT	Talks Fail; Chicago Teachers Union to Strike Talks Fail; Chicago Teachers Union to Strike The Chicago Teachers' Union announced on Sunday night that it is going on strike for the first time in 25 years. The union announced that ... Rated: 3.920635     Duration: 109 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:15:05 PDT	WEBCAST: Chicago Teachers on Strike WEBCAST: Chicago Teachers on Strike Also in the news, President Obama has jumped in the polls. *More: WNNfans.com Rated: 4.6190476     Duration: 173 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:35:58 PDT
Chicago Teachers Strike Is Biggest in a Generation Chicago Teachers Strike Is Biggest in a Generation 29000 teachers take to the picket lines after negotiations fail. For more: abcnews.go.com Rated: 3.8717949     Duration: 169 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:43:18 PDT	Chicago Teachers Strike: Public Schools vs. Charter Schools Chicago Teachers Strike: Public Schools vs. Charter Schools Failed negotiations with city raise questions about schools across the country. For more: abcnews.go.com Rated: 4.3333335     Duration: 131 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:42:51 PDT	Chicago Teachers Strike Rolls Into 2nd Day Chicago Teachers Strike Rolls Into 2nd Day Negotiators were back behind closed doors Tuesday on the second day of Chicago's teachers strike, but publicly the teachers union and school ... Rated: 2.942857     Duration: 185 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:21:42 PDT	Chicago Teachers Strike Grinds on to a Third Day Chicago Teachers Strike Grinds on to a Third Day Negotiators are back at the bargaining table on the third day of the Chicago teachers' strike. Union officials are continuing to play down the ... Rated: 3.3076923     Duration: 183 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:58:08 PDT
Chicago Teachers Strike Shuts Down School System Chicago Teachers Strike Shuts Down School System The two sides are back at the bargaining table in Chicago, on the first day of a strike by the city's teachers. The walkout left parents ... Rated: 3.1714287     Duration: 87 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:18:10 PDT	School Stand-Off: Chicago Teachers Negotiating, Strike Continues School Stand-Off: Chicago Teachers Negotiating, Strike Continues Roland Martin, Ana Navarro, Ben Smith, John Berman and Brooke Baldwin talk with Randi Weingarten President of the American Federation of Teachers ... Rated: 5     Duration: 405 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:43:30 PDT	Chicago Teacher Strike: Its Not About the Pay Chicago Teacher Strike: Its Not About the Pay As the Chicago teachers' strike goes on for a third day, teachers on the picket lines say their biggest concerns are a new performance ... Rated: 2.8823528     Duration: 109 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:39:15 PDT	Chicago Teachers Strike: Money for Schools, Not the 1% Chicago Teachers Strike: Money for Schools, Not the 1% Chicago educators, students, parents and local residents march down Michigan Avenue after a picket at Hyatt Hotel. The picket was held, according ... Rated: 4.2     Duration: 521 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:57:14 PDT
Chicago Teachers Strike: Money for Schools, Not the 1% Chicago Teachers Strike: Money for Schools, Not the 1% Chicago educators, students, parents and local residents march down Michigan Avenue after a picket at Hyatt Hotel. The picket was held, according ... Rated: 4.2     Duration: 521 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:57:14 PDT	Chicago Teacher: We Want This Strike to End Chicago Teacher: We Want This Strike to End With a teachers strike in its second day, Chicago and the teachers union are starting negotiations again. More than 25000 teachers went on strike ... Rated: 2.939394     Duration: 113 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:42:14 PDT	Chicago teachers strike likely to continue for second day Chicago teachers strike likely to continue for second day With a teachers strike in its second day, Chicago and the teachers union are starting negotiations again. More than 25000 teachers went on strike ... Rated: 2.939394     Duration: 113 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:42:14 PDT Rated: -1     Duration: 328 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:26:48 PDT	Chris Hedges: Dems Owe Chicago Teachers Support in "Most Important Labor Action in Decades" Chris Hedges: Dems Owe Chicago Teachers Support in "Most Important Labor Action in Decades" As the Chicago public school teachers' strike enters its second day, we're joined by the journalist and author Chris Hedges. "The ... Rated: 4.8571429     Duration: 485 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:33:41 PDT
Chicago Teachers Strike Continues Chicago Teachers Strike Continues John Tillman of the Illinois Policy Institute on the impact of the teachers strike and the continued negotiation efforts. Rated: 5     Duration: 420 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:51:28 PDT	Chicago Teacher Strike: Two Sides Nearing Deal Chicago Teacher Strike: Two Sides Nearing Deal After three days, Chicago teachers and the board of education are getting closer to ending the strike. Rated: -1     Duration: 121 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:49:53 PDT	BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Extend Strike - Mayor Rahm to File Lawsuit BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Extend Strike - Mayor Rahm to File Lawsuit Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis says delegates have decided to extend their weeklong strike. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he will ... Rated: -1     Duration: 733 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:52:54 PDT	Exposing the Worst Teacher in Chicago... Exposing the Worst Teacher in Chicago... Greg Palast, BBC News & The Guardian / Author, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits joins Thom Hartmann. The Chicago Teachers Union strike is in ... Rated: 5     Duration: 356 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:05:27 PDT
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CHICAGO TEACHERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE CHICAGO TEACHERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE CHICAGO - The Chicago teachers union decided Sunday to continue its weeklong strike, extending an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher evaluations and job-security provisions central to the debate over the future of public ...	No Deal: CHICAGO TEACHERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE No Deal: CHICAGO TEACHERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE Update at 8:03 p.m.. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he wills seek a court order to end the teachers strike, and that the strike is illegal under state law. Update at 7:05 p.m. No Deal On Strike. The Chicago teachers will continue its strike next week ...	Chicago teachers union to continue strike Chicago teachers union to continue strike Chicago teachers union to continue strike. September 17, 2012 00:32 GMT. CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago teachers union has decided to continue its weeklong strike. The decision extends an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher ...	CHICAGO TEACHERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE into a 2nd week in nation's 3rd largest ... CHICAGO TEACHERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE into a 2nd week in nation's 3rd largest ... CHICAGO — The Chicago teachers union decided Sunday to continue its weeklong strike, extending an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher evaluations and job security provisions central to the debate over the future of public ...
Ongoing Chicago teachers strike frustrates parents Ongoing Chicago teachers strike frustrates parents With their patience growing increasingly thin, Chicago parents continue to grapple with child care issues and ways to keep their kids busy as the teachers strike enters its second week. The work stoppage, which took place one week after most students ...	Chicago teachers continue strike Chicago teachers continue strike Chicago teachers continue strike. Tens of thousands of Chicago teachers and support staff went on strike Monday for the first time since 1987. The strike comes after school district officials and the Chicago Teachers Union did not reach an agreement ...	Chicago Teachers Strike Continues: Lewis Says Union Is 'Suspicious' Of School ... Chicago Teachers Strike Continues: Lewis Says Union Is 'Suspicious' Of School ... CHICAGO — Thousands of striking Chicago public school teachers and their allies packed a city park Saturday in a boisterous show of force as union leaders and the district tried to work out the details of an agreement that could end a week-long walkout.	Chicago Teachers Strike May Near End As Union Releases Deal Chicago Teachers Strike May Near End As Union Releases Deal A deal is on the table Saturday night to end a nearly weeklong Chicago teachers strike, though classes could still be canceled Monday as the union's House of Delegates reviews the proposal. If a press release from the Chicago Teachers Union is ...
Parents have mixed reaction on continuing strike Parents have mixed reaction on continuing strike She says is a week is a long time for a strike and the children should be back in school. Delegates with the Chicago Teachers Union decided to continue the strike on Sunday night. They say they want more time to go through the school district's latest ...	Striking Chicago teachers rally to wrap labor deal Striking Chicago teachers rally to wrap labor deal CHICAGO -- Thousands of striking Chicago teachers rallied on Saturday to keep the pressure on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to wrap up an agreement with their union to end a strike that has closed the nation's third-largest school district for a week. The rally ...	Will it end? Chicago teachers to vote on strike Will it end? Chicago teachers to vote on strike CHICAGO – Parents and striking Chicago teachers are waiting to learn whether students will return to the classroom Monday. Union leaders ... But union leaders say the walkout will continue until the language is approved and delegates accept it ...	Chicago teacher strike continues for third day Chicago teacher strike continues for third day 12, 2012 - As the Chicago teachers strike goes on for a third day, teachers on the picket lines say their biggest concerns are a new performance evaluation system and the process used to decide which laid-off teachers can be rehired. (/Associated Press ...
Are We Asking Too Much From Our Teachers? Are We Asking Too Much From Our Teachers? THE Chicago teachers' strike, which appears to be winding down, may be seminal, but for reasons that are not necessarily apparent. It came as a surprise. In July, the city had agreed to hire more .... In Chicago, 87 percent of public school students ...	Chicago Teachers Strike A Push-Back To Education Reform Chicago Teachers Strike A Push-Back To Education Reform CHICAGO –- Two weeks before teachers here went on strike, shutting down the third largest school system in the nation, a teenage boy was shot and killed in a rough neighborhood on the South Side. ..... That's a discussion that will continue on for years.	CPS finances tell grim tale CPS finances tell grim tale Since 1987, when the city's teachers last walked out, former Mayor Richard M. Daley got leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union to go along with various reform measures by raising teachers' pay and improving their retirement benefits. His administration ...	Chicago Teachers Say They Have Outline Of A Deal To End Strike Chicago Teachers Say They Have Outline Of A Deal To End Strike The Chicago Tribune reports quotes a union attorney who said that the outlines of an agreement are there, but a vote on ending the strike is not likely until Sunday. Our Original Post Continues: Despite yesterday's optimism coming from both Chicago ...

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CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE; Those First 30 Days: Busy, Busy, Busy

James Warren writes a column for the Chicago News Cooperative. Mayor Daley has been succeeded by Mayor Daily, a pinstriped heat-seeking missile with a bristly salt-and-pepper tip of hair. Last Sunday Rahm Emanuel announced he would move 150 more police officers to the streets. Monday he brought word of taxpayer savings via city-county cooperation. - jwarren@chicagonewscoop.org - By JAMES WARREN

OPINION; The Chicago Teachers’ Strike, in Perspective

Chicago THE Chicago teachers’ strike, which appears to be winding down, may be seminal, but for reasons that are not necessarily apparent. It came as a surprise. In July, the city had agreed to hire more teachers to accommodate a longer school day. Last Sunday, the city agreed to a substantial pay raise. The following day, teachers walked off - By ALEX KOTLOWITZ

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5 hours ago ... The week-old teacher's strike in Chicago's public schools will continue into the new week, the union president said Sunday.

Chicago Teachers Union Extends Strike

CHICAGO — The Chicago Teachers Union extended its strike into a second week on Sunday, after significant divisions emerged among union delegates over a deal that only a day before had been described by the union’s leader as “a good contract.” The announcement came after nearly 800 union representatives, the House of - By MONICA DAVEY and STEVEN YACCINO

LETTERS; Budget Battles and American Workers

To the Editor: As the budget battles rage on in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, pitting American workers against the conservative and Republican establishment, a new poll shows that union workers are backed by a majority of Americans (Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Unions, front page, March 1). Again, the G.O.P. is on the wrong side of

OP-ED COLUMNIST; In Chicago, It’s a Mess, All Right

“This is going to be a hot, buttery mess.” So said Karen Lewis , the fiery president of the Chicago Teachers Union , when Mayor Rahm Emanuel named a new chief executive of the city’s sprawling school system, the third largest in the nation. It was April 2011. The new man was Jean-Claude Brizard, who had cut his teeth working with - By JOE NOCERA

TEXT; President Obamas State of the Union Address

Following is the transcript of President Obamas State of the Union address on Jan. 24, 2012, as released by the White House: THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq.

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Their secret was out: Despite their upbringing in middle America, their academic success and their network of native-born friends, they had no permission to be in the United States. Their parents had brought them here illegally as children. The Robles brothers, now out of jail but fighting removal in Immigration Court, are among thousands of young illegal immigrants in similar situations, living at risk of being expelled to countries they barely remember. Two weeks ago, a Harvard University student who came from Mexico at age 4, Eric Balderas, joined their ranks after he was arrested by immigration agents at the San Antonio Airport. They are known in some circles as "Dream Act" kids, named after proposed legislation that would grant them legal status. Their cases underscore a contradiction in the Obama administrations approach to immigration enforcement. Even though the president supports the Dream Act — which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought here as children who enroll either in college or the military — his enforcement bureaucracy continues to pursue deportation cases against the increasing number of students who would be protected by it. Its part of a push that is on track to remove a record 400,000 illegal immigrants this year. "It highlights the inconsistencies in immigration policies," said William Perez, a Claremont Graduate University professor and author of "We Are Americans," a book about undocumented immigrant students. Immigration authorities say they rarely deport students, particularly once their teachers, coaches, friends and elected representatives speak out on their behalf. Balderas, for example, was placed in "deferred status," meaning the government wont remove him unless he gets in trouble. But even so, the young people remain in legal limbo, often unable to land a professional job after earning a degree. And they live with a legal sword of Damocles over their heads, subject to removal at any moment. "These cases illustrate the need for comprehensive immigration reform," said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "ICE uses its discretion on a case-by-case basis, as appropriate." Carlos and Rafael Robles were on the way to visit a friend at Harvard — not Balderas — when they were arrested. They spent a weekend in jail before friends posted $5,000 bond for each of them. They had to travel to Buffalo again recently for a court hearing after an immigration judge turned down their request to move the case to Chicago. Their next court date is next year. Their father works for a car dealer, and their mother is an assistant at a mortgage company. They came to the U.S. by airplane five years ago on a tourist visa and never went back. "We want to go to school and to work here," Carlos Robles said. Several residents of their community, a Republican-leaning Chicago suburb where most people have little patience for illegal immigration, have written letters on their behalf, said Robert Carroll, a teacher at Palatine High School. "Gee whiz, these are just two quality kids," he said. "They are everything you would want your kids to be. These kids are going to be leaders in their communities — taxpayers, not tax recipients." In recent months, immigration rights activists have renewed their push to convince Congress to pass the Dream Act. Activists have staged hunger strikes and occupied congressional offices. Earlier this month, about 30 students marched outside the Los Angeles office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Feinstein is a co-sponsor of the Dream Act, but activists criticize Democrats for not moving the bill this year. "Immigration reform may be dead this year, but we feel that smaller pieces like … the Dream Act can move forward," said Marisol Ramos, founding board member of the national United We Dream network. "Democrats should really step up." The Dream Act, sponsored by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and others, came up eight votes short in the Senate in 2007, when an effort to overhaul immigration law fell apart. The following year, then-candidate Barack Obama urged its passage during a presidential debate, saying that youths who "have essentially grown up as Americans" deserve legal status. But Obama has done little to push the bill as president. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-deport-student-20100628-1,0,218526.story
Answer: Deport them, I have no problem with deportation of these students. I see them in the school systems and they are not the great students that supporters of the dream act make you want to believe. Look at Texas, the drop out rate for illegal aliens is over 50%. So you want these gang bangers and young drug dealers to receive amnesty. Not me. If the dream act would ever pass, how could you tell one who stays in school that they are allowed to stay but their five siblings who quit school would have to be deported. No dream act ever. It is their parents fault for doing this, are school systems already suffer by their presence.
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Op-Ed Columnist Behind the Laughter comments (245) E-Mail Send To Phone Print Share Close By BOB HERBERT Published: October 12, 2009 Conan O’Brien has been making some pretty rough jokes about Newark, which has led to a (mostly) mock feud between the late-night host and Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Bob Herbert Readers Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. Read All Comments (245) » O’Brien joked that the mayor was establishing a program to improve the health of the city’s residents, then deadpanned: “The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.” He did a video bit in which he praised the city’s “thriving arts scene” (while showing a graffiti-scarred wall); its “four-star lodging” (shots of abandoned, gutted, rusting vehicles); and its “world-class live theater” (a peep show). He threatened to form an alliance with the mayors of nearby municipalities, thus “creating a geographic toilet seat around the city of Newark,” making it possible to flush the city down the figurative bowl. The mayor came up with his own YouTube videos in response and, believe it or not, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed in at one point as a mock peace negotiator. Conan seems like a nice fellow, and I doubt that he harbors any malice toward Newark. But he and his audience are having fun taunting a city that, like many others across the U.S., is in a desperately tragic situation: poverty-stricken, run down, often unsafe, its children and teenagers in too many instances going nowhere fast. Whether it’s Newark, Detroit, parts of Chicago, South-Central Los Angeles, Camden, N.J. — take your pick — we’ve looked the other way for decades as the residents of hard-core inner-city neighborhoods struggled with overwhelming, life-threatening problems and a chronic shortage of resources, financial and otherwise. We’re having an intense national debate over whether to move ahead with nation-building in Afghanistan and to continue protecting the population in places like Kabul and Kandahar while all but ignoring the violence that is consuming the lives of boys and girls in Chicago, America’s third-largest city. Dozens of boys and girls of school-age and younger are murdered in Chicago every year. One hundred were killed there last year, according to the police. The blood of the young is spattered daily on the stoops, sidewalks and streets of American cities from coast to coast, and we won’t even take notice unless, *******for example, we can engage in the ghoulish delight of watching the murder played over and over again on video.******* In Newark, where some of the streets do look as bad as the scenes that were part of Conan’s comedy bit, the unemployment rate is 14.7 percent. Keeping kids in high school long enough to graduate is difficult. Drug dealing is a fallback employment option for men and boys who can’t find legitimate work. Other cities have the same problems, some to a greater degree. So what are we doing? While mulling the prospect of sending up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, we’ve stood idly by, mute as a stone, as school districts across the nation have bounced 40,000 teachers out of their jobs over the past year. That should tell you all you need to know about twisted national priorities. Even as teachers by the tens of thousands are walking the plank to unemployment, we’re learning, as The Times reported last week, that one in every 10 young male dropouts is locked up in jail or juvenile detention. As if that weren’t gruesome enough, we find that the figure for blacks is one in four. What would it take to get the perpetual crisis facing these young people onto the radar screens of the rest of America? Conan was just trying to be funny, but the reality behind his late-night humor is horrifying. In Detroit, the median sale price of a house has hovered around $8,000. Seventy percent of all murders in the Motor City go unsolved. Joblessness is off the charts. The school system is a catastrophe. I remember driving around Camden, which is right outside of Philadelphia, on a rainy afternoon. Young people with nothing to do — they had dropped out of school and had little or no chance of finding a job — were gathered on porches, saying little, staring the hours away. I had on a suit and was driving a nice car. More than one person that I approached thought I was either buying or selling drugs. The inner cities have been in a recession for decades. They’re in a depression now. Myriad issues desperately need to be addressed: employment, education, the foreclosure crisis, crime, alcohol and drug abuse, health care (including mental health treatment and counseling), child care for working parents and on and on and on. Conan’s jokes would carry a silver lining if they could somehow prompt more people to think more seriously about what’s really going on in cities like Newark. Can someone explain what He
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The Closer

Before the seventh game of the 2003 American League Championship Series with the Boston Red Sox, Mariano Rivera, the New York Yankees star who is widely considered the greatest relief pitcher in the history of baseball, said a prayer. Rivera, a deeply religious man, prays with his family before every home game. But this was a special prayer, which - James Traub is a contributing writer for the magazine. His most recent article was about the U.S. counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan. - By JAMES TRAUB

Mayor seeks legal action as Chicago teachers union votes to continue

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7 hours ago ... The Chicago Teachers Union delegates decided Sunday night not to accept a deal for a new contract from Chicago Public Schools and made ...

Teachers’ Leader in Chicago Strike Shows Her Edge

CHICAGO — When it comes to demanding, pushing and sparring, few people could even begin to compare with Rahm Emanuel , the famously foul-mouthed mayor whose no-holds-barred tactics once included sending a dead fish to someone whose work he found lacking. Then came Karen Lewis. In Ms. Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, which - By MONICA DAVEY and STEVEN YACCINO

Chicago Teachers Union Strike to Continue | The Lonely Conservative

The Chicago Teachers Union is continuing its strike, at least for a few more days. They don't even seem to be pretending it's about the children anymor...

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The Chicago Teachers Union delegates decided Sunday night not to accept a deal for a new contract from Chicago Public Schools and made plans to resume negotiations Tuesday, effectively prolonging the weeklong ...

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CHICAGO -- Chicago teachers uncomfortable with a tentative contract offer decided Sunday to remain on strike, insisting they need more time before deciding whether to end an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm ...

Are teachers overpaid or underpaid?

With the current strikes happening in Chicago, Ive been thinking about this question. After reading the demands from the teachers, Ive realized that the benefits and retirement, coupled with the salary they make for working 190 days a year is incredibly generous. I feel like if the United States were still academically the best nation in the world, theyd deserve what they are asking for. But we have fallen behind many other countries and our performance continues to decline. So what do you think? In your opinion, are teachers overpaid or underpaid?
Answer: First, in a market economy, salaries are determined by what it takes to get good employees. One of the problems we have is that education is not allowed to work on a market economy basis, as governments determine the salaries, so schools cannot offer more money to get the best teachers, as would happen in a private industry. Second, we are not falling behind and to the extent that we are, it's not because of the teachers. Middle class U.S. students score as well or better on the standardized tests as students from other countries. Our problems is a poverty rate of higher than 20%. Test scores correlate highly with socioeconomic status. As we allow more people to fall below the poverty line, teachers have to work harder to compensate for the lack of preparation and support students are getting at home. The teachers in Chicago are mostly concerned about the unfair evaluation system, which evaluates them based on their students' test scores. That puts teachers in inner city schools at a serious disadvantage compared to those in affluent suburbs.
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No Deal: CHICAGO TEACHERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE : The Two-Way : NPR

18 hours ago ... The union's House of Delegates declined to vote on whether to end the strike Sunday after hearing details of a tentative contract agreement.

EDITORIAL; In Search of Excellent Teaching

The Chicago teachers’ strike was prompted in part by a fierce disagreement over how much student test scores will weigh in a new teacher evaluation system mandated by state law. That teachers’ unions in much of the country now agree that student achievement should count in evaluations at all reflects a major change from the past, when

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7 hours ago ... The union's House of Delegates declined to vote on whether to end the strike Sunday after hearing details of a tentative contract agreement.

CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE; Education Group Tries To Rebound After Diatribe

An Oregon-based education group, whose deep pockets and skillful maneuvering made it a surprising powerhouse player in Springfield earlier this year, is regrouping after an embarrassing outburst by its founder forced a leadership shuffle within the organization. The Illinois chapter of Stand for Children raised more money than any other major - Kristen McQueary covers state government for The Chicago News Cooperative and the public radio station WBEZ.; kmcqueary@chicagonewscoop.org - By KRISTEN McQUEARY; Rebecca Vevea contributed reporting.

Chicago teachers continue strike | Corrente

Chicago teachers continue strike. lambert's picture. Sun, 09/16/2012 - 10:09pm — lambert. Reuters: Lewis said teachers also fear that when the strike ends, Emanuel will soon announce the closing of scores of schools to save money to pay for ...

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