There are far better sites than these to look at. Substance News run by former teacher and union activist George Schmidt is good from the CTU side and places like EdWeek and NCTQ from the reformer side.
In my view the key to this "strike" is understanding that it was not the real battle. The mayor had already won a longer school day and subjective evaluations based on student performance in a legislative battle nearly a year ago. This contract battle did nothing to change that. The much heralded leaders of the CTU and the most public faces of the strike - "social justice" ideologue Karen Lewis and ISO activist Jesse Sharkey - were heavily criticized by their own rank and file caucus members for agreeing to those changes. In These Times reporter David Moberg offered up the specious excuse that they were bamboozled by those wily state legislators in Springfield. But at least one of those legislators spoke up against the law saying it was tantamount to union-busting. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:31 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > Both sides are declaring victory, so what does the scoreboard really look > like? > > > http://www.ctunet.com/for-members/strike-central/text/Board-Proposals-Summary-Comparison.pdf > > http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/09/19/teachers-strike-over-but-both-sides-still-working-to-spin-the-dispute/ > > > -raghu. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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