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  • Teachers: The Spoiled Victims in America

    It is hard to believe only a year and a half separates Governor Walker’s standoff with the Wisconsin teachers’ unions over collective bargaining rights and the most recent Chicago Teachers Union strike that closed Chicago Public Schools for seven days and kept 350,000 kids out of the classroom. Events like these have increasingly forced the…

  • Striking: Padding a Salary or Righting a Wrong?

    When the Chicago teachers’ strike came to a close, 25,000 teachers returned to teach 350,000 students after eight days off of school. The ramifications of the strike went beyond simply a reduced number of instructional days for students. Working parents had to scramble to arrange a place for their children to go during school hours.…