A Fight for the Soul of Public Education : The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike /

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In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and transformed the scope of collective barga...

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Main Authors: Ashby, Steven K. (Author), Bruno, Robert, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Teachers > Political activity.
Strikes and lockouts > Teachers.
Education and state.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Enseignants > Activite politique > Illinois > Chicago.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Illinois > Chicago.
Greves et lock-out > Enseignants > Illinois > Chicago.
Teachers > Political activity > Illinois > Chicago.
Education and state > Illinois > Chicago.
Strikes and lockouts > Teachers > Illinois > Chicago.
Illinois > Chicago.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Education reform from Washington to Chicago
  • The era of mayoral control begins
  • Chicago school teachers and core
  • Evaluating teachers and political opportunism
  • Senate Bill 7
  • The contract campaign
  • Emanuel provokes, teachers prepare to bargain
  • The start of 2012 contract negotiations
  • A breakthrough and prelude to a strike
  • The strike
  • Bargaining during the strike and a deal reached.

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