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Dear Santa: Please Save Head Start

Jacqueline Edelberg | Posted 02.03.2013 | Home
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Dear Santa, I imagine you don't get too many letters from pre-kindergarteners who haven't held a pencil or sung the alphabet or haven't heard a bedtime story.

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No Guarantees In Ongoing Teacher Strike

AP | TAMMY WEBBER and JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.15.2012 | Chicago
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CHICAGO — Thousands of striking Chicago public school teachers and their allies packed a city park Saturday in a boisterous show of force as uni...

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Chicago Strike Spotlights Linchpin Of Obama Ed Policy

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 09.11.2012 | Home
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-- One of the key disagreements driving Chicago teachers to the picket lines this week is also a central component of President Barack Obama's educat...

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Thousands Of Chicago Teachers Take To The Streets

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.11.2012 | Home
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It started early in the morning and crescendoed in the afternoon, with thousands upon thousands of teachers clad in red union shirts swarming downtown...

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Poor Students Can't Afford Teachers' Strike

brookings | Beth Akers and Matthew M. Chingos | Posted 11.10.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Brookings Institution. Ninety-three years ago yesterday, the Boston police force went on strike, leaving the...

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Chicago Students, Parents, Take To Twitter On Teachers Strike

Posted 11.10.2012 | Home
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Chicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after weeks of negotiations between the city and the Chicago Teacher's Union fai...

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