Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

Author : Micah Uetricht

Paperback

Published : Monday 24 February 2014

ISBN : 9781781683255

Price : €12.86

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An indispensable account ... Uetricht explains why the struggle of teachers in Chicago should matter to all of us. - Liza Featherstone

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century--and perhaps for the last forty years--and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other changes. In 2012, Chicago teachers built a grassroots movement through education and engagement of an entire union

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