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Folks may find this interesting, especially in connection with the article Louis sent out earlier today: http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1472§ion=Article. Chicago has served as the testing ground for US education policy since the 80s, and because of this a challenge to privatization and teacher-vilification originating in Chicago may resonate nationally. The results of the CTU election are a significant victory, if only a first step, in the fight against the neoliberal program for education "reform." CTU is Chicago's largest union. Socialist Worker articles on CORE and the CTU: http://socialistworker.org/2010/05/17/will-the-ctu-oust-its-leaders http://socialistworker.org/2010/05/26/chicago-teachers-challenge-cuts (5,000+ person rally; extremely energetic. Cops didn't expect that many and we took over one of the main streets downtown for a few hours) http://socialistworker.org/2010/06/08/challenges-facing-the-ctu The new vice-president of the union will be speaking as part of a panel on attacks on public education at Socialism 2010 in Chicago. Here is the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124442624259167. Here is the web page for the conference: www.socialismconference.org. The latest ISR features a few articles on the crisis in public education. Gillian Russom's article on Obama's program is quite comprehensive: http://www.isreview.org/issues/71/feat-neoliberaleducation.shtml Solidarity, Jon K. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
