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Written and edited by Norm Scott: EDUCATE! ORGANIZE!! MOBILIZE!!! Three pillars of The Resistance – providing information on current ed issues, organizing activities around fighting for public education in NYC and beyond and exposing the motives behind the education deformers. We link up with bands of resisters. Nothing will change unless WE ALL GET INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE!

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

NYC Parents Won't Back Down - Rally Before Film Premiere - Sunday

Please consider coming to this event and help spread the word! PARENTS " Won’t Back Down" FROM FIGHTING THE CORPORATE TAKEOV...

Friday, September 21, 2012

Irony: Chicago Community Organizers Supported the Teacher Union

Obama's successors in Chicago take a different tack towards teachers. The collaborative and other neighborhood groups were working wit...

Thursday, September 20, 2012

ATRs Meet Today/Send Letter to Chicago Teachers

...the stories from teachers with lunatic principals keep rolling in. The Curse of the ATR We thought that we had heard it all, but t...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Rahm Emanuel to Remove His Children From Lab School

Ed Notes Exclusive: Celebrating the end of the strike and embarrassed over Chicago parent Matt Farmer's revelations of the kinds of pri...

Socialist Worker: A victory for solidarity and struggle

Here is the other side as follow-up to my last post from Modern School that branded the settlement as a defeat ( Modern School Views Strike...

Modern School Views Strike End as Defeat

The elephant is still in the room: What about the good teachers who were laid off from low income, low performing schools? What about all ...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Strike is Over: Who Were the Targets? Rahm, Barack, and Randi

There were comments out there that the CTU was being pressured to settle by Randi and the AFT. No doubt. Get this thing off the front p...

Eterno on Chicago – the Positive Spin

I want to post this from James as a follow-up to his and my post yesterday from Susan Zupan, a Chicago teacher unhappy with the contract. No...

MORE-Labor Notes Chapter Leader Organizing Training, Wed Sept 19 5PM

The UFT will train chapter leaders in how to understand the contract. But it will not train people in the essence of unionism -- organi...

A Chapter Leader Informs Members About Charters

Hey teachers, don't go on the radio to talk about charters if you don't know what you are talking about. I was listening to the Br...

Monday, September 17, 2012

NYC teachers, Have you seen your growth scores?

I have heard that city teachers and principals have not seen their NYSED growth scores yet. They are available upon teacher and princ...

CTU Member Susan Zupan: Strike thoughts

I read this on the ICE blog posted by James Eterno. It has some interesting perspectives from a teacher saying NO to the contract....

Global Solidarity for Chicago

"Teachers are placed in a position where they have to defend themselves and their students to save our system of public education. ...

Juan Gonzalez: Chicago Teachers Union leader Karen Lewis pushed back — and won

Until this week, no one — not even American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten — had found a way to turn back the tide of te...

MORE Member Responds to E4E Contact - September 17, 2012

....E4E DEFINITELY has an ambitious agenda to build a "grass-roots" organization inside all the schools, a kind of anti-union un...

Chicago Updates: Karen Lewis meets media and Lee Sustar: Members Will Decide

School closings are the elephant in the room....Don't call is a good contract. It is what we got.... the biggest issue is the one of cl...

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