By
Kyle Olson
Broke?
Chicago school budget would increase spending by nearly 10 percent!
For
all of the panicky rhetoric coming out of Chicago, one would think the school
district is on the verge of financial collapse. Indeed, the Chicago Tribune
recently published an editorial announcing that the financial emergency for CPS
has arrived. That may very well be, but one would never know it from the
proposed increase in spending of nearly 10 percent. [more...]
Chicago
union teachers, students travel to Honduras to discuss U.S. 'revolution'
By
the looks of things, Chicago’s education system must be in tip-top shape. Why
else would members of the Chicago Teachers Unions be jetting around the world
and focusing on global issues rather than the academic issues facing their
district? For two weeks at the end of June, about 20 teachers and students
traveled to Honduras to meet with their teachers union counterparts from that
country, to learn about the "Honduran resistance movement,” and meet with
the deposed former president, Mel Zelaya, according to an account posted on Honduras Resists. The published account
states members of the CTU met with Zelaya to exchange ideas "about the
struggle for a world where human lives have more value than private profit."
[more...]
Teacher:
'Rednecks hold their heads a little higher' after Zimmerman verdict
When
students return to classrooms this fall, a healthy number of them will discuss
the recent George Zimmerman trial and acquittal, which many activist teachers
believe was an "injustice." So how will the activists teach about it?
Thehairpin.com,
a self-described "women's website," recently asked several teachers
for reaction. "Rednecks are holding their heads a little higher and
tapping the guns on their holsters eager for a stand your ground moment,"
said one anonymous teacher from Alabama. [more...]
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