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Democrat takes on teachers union in Prop. 32 ad
PolitiCalA former Democratic lawmaker takes on California's largest teachers union in a new ad for Proposition 32, the November ballot measure that promises to eliminate special-interest money in politics. In a two-minute Web video posted on YouTube this week,... -
2 teachers union lobbyists teach for a day to qualify for hefty pensions
Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found.
Steven Preckwinkle, the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science, University of Illinois Springfield, Rod Blagojevich, Interior Policy
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Newton: A split among Democrats
Gloria Romero is a Democrat. She was elected to the California Assembly as a Democrat and later to the state Senate. She served as Democratic leader of the Senate, the first woman to do so. Ben Austin is a Democrat too. He worked in the White House...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, White House, Gloria Romero
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Thousands of teachers rally in Chicago
Tribune reportersMayor Rahm Emanuel bore the brunt of criticism from angry teachers who filled the Auditorium Theatre on Wednesday to make clear their unhappiness with the administration's efforts to overhaul public education in Chicago. The crowd of nearly 4,000...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Montgomery (Kane, Illinois), Strikes, Michigan Avenue, Rahm Emanuel
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In wake of teachers union vote, Emanuel defends aggressive CPS changes
Tribune reporterFollowing a vote by the Chicago Teachers Union that showed overwhelming support among teachers for a strike, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday defended his aggressive push to make changes at the Chicago Public Schools. Emanuel acknowledged the nearly 90...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Mayor, Strikes, Elections
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Ka-boom! Teachers destroy barrier to a strike --- Reformers, school officials are hoist with their own petard
Change of SubjectThe cartoon image in my mind's eye today is of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, his schools chiefJean-Claude Brizard and various public education reform advocates standing in a semicircle, their clothes and faces speckled with the sooty residue of an explosion. Their.... -
Local School Council members ask court to take action on proposed school closings
Tribune reporterLocal School Council members, helped by the Chicago Teachers Union, are asking a Cook County court to intervene before the Chicago Board of Education votes on 17 proposed school closures and "turnarounds" later this month. Members of nine local...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Justice System, Layoffs and Downsizing, Teaching and Learning, Job Layoffs
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Many find their way into state's higher education pension system
For a few days' work proctoring exams in 1999 at a Downstate community college, Raymond Roskos Jr. earned $364. He'll be paid much more later. That brief service in the state higher education system is all it took to qualify Roskos to eventually draw a...Tags: Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois Springfield, Interior Policy, Work Relations, Southern Illinois University
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June 11, 2011: 165 teachers to be laid off, 100 fewer than expected
Of The Morning CallThe Allentown School District plans to lay off 165 teachers, 100 fewer than what officials anticipated last week. But the latest round of layoff notices, issued Friday, could drop slightly if the teachers union approves a two-year contract extension that...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Allentown, Layoffs and Downsizing, Tom Corbett, Job Layoffs
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2 students dead in clash with Mexico police
World NowREPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- Two students are dead after a confrontation between police and rural teaching students in the southern state of Guerrero, in an incident that is reminding many here of the history of brutal crackdowns against leftist... -
Sunlight, camera, action!
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column: "We are not negotiating this in the public," said Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis last week. She was responding to reporters curious about the union's ambitious opening gambit in its contract talks with the cash-... -
California teachers union pushed pollster to drop Jerry Brown's tax rival
PolitiCalA California Teachers Union ordered its pollster to stop working for proponents of a tax initiative that is competing with one proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The California Teachers Association made the demand of The Mellman Group after it did polls for...
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Dec 17, 2011
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Aug 19, 2011
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Dec 13, 2011
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Feb 21, 2012
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Mar 13, 2012
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