Chicago Teachers Union plans mass demonstration against school closings | World news

Chicago Teachers Union plans mass demonstration against school closings | World news | guardian.co.uk
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“People who work in the schools and rely on public schools will oppose the mass closings by any and all peaceful means,” CTU vice-president Jesse Sharkey told union members recently. “[School closings] are not something we are prepared to accept without a fight … We’re going to take this fight as far as we have to to defend our community schools.”

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Shocking Rahm’s Shock Doctrine
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Eighty percent of students affected by school closings, in fact, are black; but only 40 percent of students as a whole in the system are black. (Signs hoisted on the dais of the rally on Daley Plaza starred the faces of African-American heroes whose names adorn some of the schools being closed: writer Henry Dumas. Singer Mahalia Jackson. Eighteenth-century scientist Benjamin Banneker.)