Labor Beat: Chicago's Save Our Schools Rally

Run time: 02:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ll_205a8k   Posted on YouTube: May 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: MiloWolf Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 27, 2010 By DU Member: proud2BlibKansan Views on DU: 551

 
On May 25, 2010 a huge Save Our Schools rally took place in the middle of Chicago's Loop.
About 4,000 teachers union members, students, and community supporters took over
Clark Street in front of the headquarters of the Board of Education. They were there
to protest the years of cuts in public education engineered by Chicago's
Mayor Daley and the school board, the legacy of now U.S. Department of Education
head Arne Duncan. This rally also took place just days after the announcement that
there would be a run-off in the teachers union election because incumbent CTU
president Marilyn Stewart failed to get a majority...or anything near it. Leading
opposition candidates of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE) are
interviewed. This protest shows that there is a new stage of resistance developing
against the national strategy to dismantle public education. Length - 02:50.

they must have had a bunch of music teachers cause they had a really good drum section! the teachers union in chicago is leading the charge across the state to restore the funding to the schools. a local teacher`s union convinced the school board to turn down duncan`s teach to test money.

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I'll check it out after school. My lunch break is over in one minute!

Every city in the country should have one of these rallies!! Thanks!