Account of the struggle between the Chicago Teachers’ Union and Mayor Lori Lightfoot over returning to remote learning while COVID-19 infections are surging, from Jan. 4 to 12.
Lori Lightfoot
Pandemic prompts rethinking education
January 31, 2021The pandemic challenges assumptions about the purpose of schooling, creating an opportunity to address basic issues, including ways to help students reflect and build on what they have learned, in school or out, and to figure out how to allow those experiences to “count.”
Pandemic changes education
January 14, 2021The pandemic challenges assumptions about the purpose of schooling, creating an opportunity to address basic issues, including ways to help students reflect and build on what they have learned, in school or out, and to figure out how to allow those experiences to “count.”
CTU’s partial victory
January 21, 2020Report on the partial victory of the Chicago Teachers Union’s 11-day strike in mid-November.
CTU teachers strike!
November 17, 2019Chicago teachers went on strike to end their terrible working conditions.