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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Today is Roald Dahl day, the annual marketing push sorry, I mean opportunity to celebrate the birth... There was plenty in the jobs stats yesterday to get commentators and bloggers wringing their hands a... As of...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Chicago's 29,000 teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after the latest contract talks broke down Sunday night with no deal to avert a walkout. Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Both sides said they were nearing agreement Thursday on Day 4 of...
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Education News
| 8 months ago
The Chicago Teachers Union said Thursday that the city's public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but the union president said she was hopeful that both sides were close to completing a settlement to end the nearly weeklong strike. "...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks to the press before the start of the teachers' strike. Photograph: Sitthixay Ditthavong/AP After months of deadlock and four days of strike action, Chicago teachers appeared on Thursday to be close...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
The Chicago teachers strike will keep 350,000 students out of class for at least one more day. The city's teachers union said classes won't resume Friday, but the union has called a special delegates meeting for that afternoon, when the bargaining...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Americans turned to New York early Friday for a dose of doom and gloom, but the murder scene outside of the Empire State Building wasn't the only mass shooting site in the country during the last few hours...Published: 13 September, 2012, 20:06...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
The Chicago Teachers Union president says a deal to end the city's first teachers' strike in 25 years is close, but she's pushed back her timeline a bit. Just hours after predicting students could be back in class by Friday, Karen Lewis said it might...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Chicago public school teachers and their supporters picket outside of Marshall High School on September 12, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph: Getty Images/Scott Olson The union for Chicago teachers and the third largest US school district said...
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The Daily Herald
| 8 months ago
Although talks continued late, Chicago Public Schools officials say schools will be closed a fourth day due to a teachers strike...Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is expressing concern that after a contract is reached, the district plans...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Gallery Video As the Chicago teachers strike goes on for a third day, teachers on the picket lines say their biggest concerns are a new performance evaluation system and the process used to decide which laid-off teachers can be rehired. Teachers are...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
Illinois state law could bar teachers from striking on anything except pay and benefits, but the Chicago teachers strike is also about class size, job security, and teacher evaluations. Mayor Rahm Emanuel can take the union to court but at a risk.
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Hackensack Chronicle
| 8 months ago
The strike has canceled classes for more than 350,000 students. Union officials continued to play down the chances of a quick resolution to the dispute, which centers on the district's proposed new teacher evaluation process and a policy on rehiring...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Union leaders said they would meet Wednesday morning to review a new, comprehensive proposal from school board negotiators that addresses all the issues still on the table. The board on Tuesday demanded either a written response to its positions or a...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Lewis pitted against Mr. Emanuel, center, few in the city expect either to back down. Nathan Weber for The New York Times Schoolteachers outside the Board of Education offices on Tuesday, the second day of their strike. In the view of some here, the...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
As a strike by Chicago's school teachers enters a third day, the president of their union says negotiators are still "miles apart" from an agreement to get 350,000 students back in the classroom, The Chicago Tribune reports. The talks were set to...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
Striking teachers in Chicago, where schools are shuttered for a third day, say Rahm Emanuel's City Hall has spread misinformation in suggesting the two sides were close to settling the first strike in a quarter-century. "To say that the contract will...
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Education News
| 8 months ago
Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world's most popular websites...Become a Yahoo! contributor According to NBC Chicago , the Chicago teachers are continuing their strike for a second day in a row...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Negotiators went back to the bargaining table Tuesday morning as Chicago parents coped with the second day of a teachers strike. School district officials continued to insist that an agreement could be quickly done; their union counterparts were less...
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CNSNews.com
| 8 months ago
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis told a Labor Day rally last week that the teachers' strike that began on Monday was not just about the CTU's salary demands, but about the very soul of public education. Speaking to a labor day rally...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: Three key questions: the state of talks; the fate of parents; the future of the mayor Local coverage of the teachers' strike is focusing on the state of the talks, the fate of the parents whose...
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Chicago Tribune
| 9 months ago
The same rhetoric the mayor uses to get a leg up in the court of public opinion and build pressure toward a new contract could further antagonize a union that marched through downtown in force Monday carrying signs that read "CTU: Teaching students...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
Barely open for a week, the greedy teachers are now walking off the job but the main reasons for this strike presented by the CTU really don't stand up to close scrutiny, for sure. The CTU wants a 30% pay raise and they want class sizes to be made...
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Chicago-Sun Times
| 9 months ago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday urged both sides in the strike by Chicago Public School teachers to stay at the table and finish it for our children, but he refused to bend on two outstanding issues: allowing principals to retain the right to choose...
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Arizona Daily Sun
| 9 months ago
The Associated Press The Associated Press 49 minutes ago Associated Press As Chicago teachers walk the picket lines, their union and the city's school district resumed negotiating Monday over a new contract that includes bigger salaries, more...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Obama administration and by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was once President Obama's chief of staff. In fact, Karen Lewis, the head of the teachers union, said the two sides were close to agreement on financial matters, but other issues remain...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Chicago's first teachers' strike in 25 years began Monday after school officials and teachers failed to reach a contract agreement, officials said. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis announced late Sunday weekend talks failed to resolve all...
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Education News
| 9 months ago
Content For the first time in a quarter of a century Chicago teachers went on strike today after last-ditch negotiations over the weekend failed to produce a new labor agreement for the country's third-largest school district. The Chicago Teachers...
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Al Jazeera English
| 9 months ago
52 Young students march in support of Chicago teachers in advance of Monday's strike [Reuters] Chicago school teachers will go on strike for the first time in 25 years demanding better pay, health benefits and more resources to serve students in the...
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MarketWatch
| 9 months ago
The first public-school teachers in a quarter-century is underway in Chicago, canceling classes in the nation's third largest school system, after marathon contract talks with city officials ended Sunday night without a deal. Flags fly at half-staff...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Chicago public school teachers are going on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after their union said the two sides hadn't come to an agreement. "Negotiations have been intense but productive -- however, we have failed to reach an agreement...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
Almost 30,000 teachers and support staff are off the job after their union and school officials failed to reach a contract agreement despite 400 hours of negotiations...The flood of out-of-class students from nearly 700 schools is prompting police to...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The Chicago Teachers Union Sunday night announced that its members -- about 26,000 teachers and support staff -- would go on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years as talks over contract issues with the district failed. Share This Story Union...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Chicago public school teachers will strike for the first time in a quarter century on Monday after they failed to reach agreement with the nation's third-largest school district over education reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The historic...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
They couldn't make a deal in Chicago so more than 350,000 public school kids won't have class on Monday. Why are teachers in the third largest school district in the country going on strike for the first time since 1987, when a walkout lasted 19 days?
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-09-10 01:57 PM Chicago teachers will stay out of their classrooms today and will go on strike Monday morning for the first time in 25 years after their union...
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
Steve Mullis Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has said, "No [Chicago Teachers Union] members will be inside of our schools Monday," after contract negotiations failed to reach a deal that would prevent a labor strike, the Chicago Tribune...
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Chicago Tribune
| 9 months ago
Ahmed-Ullah, Joel Hood and Kristen Mack, Chicago Tribune reporters Chicago's teachers union said it will strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after talks with Chicago Public Schools ended late Sunday night without resolution. "We have failed...
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Education News
| 9 months ago
When Rahm Emanuel resigned as President Barack Obama 's chief White House enforcer two years ago, many Washington pundits wondered why he abandoned a place at the pinnacle of power to try to govern one of America's most unruly cities. Now as Chicago '...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Chicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after their union and district officials failed to reach a contract agreement despite intense weekend negotiations that the union said were productive but still failed to...
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Daily Southtown
| 9 months ago
Chicago teachers are going on strike for the first time in 25 years after talks failed to yield a new contract, the head of the union announced late Sunday. In the morning, no CTU member will be inside our schools, Karen Lewis said at a dramatic 10 p.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 9 months ago
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the strike called by the Chicago Teachers Union is "unnecessary" and unfair to the city's school children. The mayor spoke shortly after union President Karen Lewis announced that the city's 25,000 public school...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
With No Contract Deal by Deadline in Chicago, Teachers Will Strike Sitthixay Ditthavong/Associated Press Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distributed strike signs as the deadline approached. Union leaders for this city's public schoolteachers...
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Education News
| 9 months ago
The Chicago public school board president says talks with the teachers union have been called off as the clock winds down to avert the city's first teachers strike in a quarter century . David Vitale says that it is unknown whether union officials...
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Education News
| 9 months ago
Content Talks broke down between the Chicago Teachers Union and the public school board on Sunday night, heralding in the city's first strike in 25 years ...The Gingrich-Sharpton Alliance The numbers alone indicate that this is not a small labor...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
The Chicago Teachers Union says its members will go on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years. The union says contract talks with the district failed late Sunday night over issues including benefits and job security. "We will be on the (picket)...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Spencer Green/AP Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis cast her ballot during a strike authorization vote at a Chicago high school on June 6, 2012. Midnight Sept. 9 was the deadline to agree on a deal with Chicago Public Schools over issues...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
The Chicago Teachers Union says its members will go on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years. The union says contract talks with the district failed late Sunday night over issues including benefits and job security. More than 26,000 teachers...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
Teachers and support staff in the 30,000 member union have set a walkout date of Monday, which would mark the first time workers for the third-largest public school system have gone on strike in 25 years. On Sunday, Chicago Teachers Union chief Karen...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Negotiations continued Sunday between the teachers union and school district in an effort to avert the first teachers strike in Chicago in a quarter century. Teachers in the third largest U.S. school district, which has 400,000 students, said they...
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Education News
| 9 months ago
Negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district were going down to the wire on Sunday, as teachers threaten to strike on Monday over Mayor Rahm Emanuel 's demand for sweeping school reforms . Both sides...
