By Victor Skinner
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CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union has a lot of nerve.
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Despite 54% graduation rate, Chicago Teachers Union tackles gay marriage
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union is coming out of the closet on a very critical educational issue: gay marriage.
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Union VP threatens school board, vows ‘no peace’ in Chicago
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – During a Veterans Day protest – which focused on school closings, not the service of veterans – Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey said the union would go after the school board and there would be “no peace” in the city if the board follows through on a plan to close 100 underperforming unionized schools.
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All quiet on the union front: No teacher strikes in Pennsylvania – yet
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Something strange is happening in Pennsylvania.
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CTU rejects tentative contract agreement; mayor threatens to seek a court injunction to end strike
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – As one newspaper put it, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is “giving away the farm” in an effort to appease the teachers union and end the week-old strike.
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CTU’s Lewis: Increased accountability unfair because poor kids can’t learn
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – One of main reasons the Chicago teachers have been on strike for three days (against their students and the rest of the community) is the union’s rigid opposition to any evaluation system that uses student learning to help measure a teacher’s classroom performance.
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Many striking Chicago teachers send their own children to private schools
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – While Chicago teachers hold public education hostage in the Windy City, many of their own children are enjoying uninterrupted instruction at some of the city’s finest private schools.
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This just in: Socialists run the Chicago Teachers Union!
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – The historic links between labor unions and the radical left – primarily socialists, Marxists and Communists – are undeniable. They’re virtually one in the same.
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Chicago schools ignore legal request for financial information
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – The contentious battle between the Chicago Teachers Union and the city’s public schools essentially boils down to one main issue – labor costs.
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Chicago teachers vote to authorize strike, or so the union says
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – The radical Chicago Teachers Union leadership has announced that the number of “yes” votes cast in last week’s membership poll “well surpassed” the 75 percent necessary to authorize the union to strike in the fall.
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Can we count on transparency in CTU strike vote?
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union is dying to go on strike. Its leaders have been hinting and talking and winking about it for months, and recent contract negotiations provided no glimmer of hope for any sort of compromise.
Prominent Democrat rips Chicago Teachers Union for strike talk
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – For years it was tabboo in the Democratic Party to question the teachers unions.
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