The 2015 Mayoral Campaign Begins Tonight
We don’t know who all the candidates will be, but the 2015 campaign for mayor of Chicago is beginning this evening, with a Chicago Teachers Union deputy registrar training session. The CTU, whose blood feud with Mayor Rahm Emanuel was deepened yesterday by his school board’s decision to close 50 Full story
Chicago teachers lead three-day march in protest of historic school closings
The march comes after months of bitter conflict between the Chicago Teachers Union and the government of Mayor Rahmn Emanuel, President Obama's former chief of staff. Full story
CTU's Lewis Wins Second Term
Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teachers Union president who led teachers through contentious contract negotiations that included a work stoppage, and who continues to fight the planned closure of more than 50 schools, was elected Friday to a second three-year term. The union said Lewis received an "ove Full story
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What are 30,000 students in Chicago supposed to do now?
With the announcement that Chicago will close 54 schools, Melissa Harris-Perry talks with Jesse Sharkey, the vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, and Mildred Wiley, the senior director of the Community Collective Impact at Bethel New Life Church on the city's West Side where some of the sch
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