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• Chicago schools to be closed at least 1 more day

  September 13, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The city’s public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but leaders of the teachers union and the school district kept talking Thursday, with …

• Talks to end Chicago teacher strike make progress

  September 13, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Negotiations between union and school officials in the nation’s third-largest school district resumed Thursday with an air of optimism and signals that a teachers’ strike could end …

• Teacher evaluations at center of Chicago strike

  September 13, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Educators in Los Angeles just signed a new deal with the city’s school district. So, too, did teachers in Boston. Both require performance evaluations based in part … 1

• Chicago teachers union president is brash advocate

  September 12, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — She’s brash and blunt, the tough-talking union leader who has taken on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a bitter contract dispute regarded as a referendum on the …

• Chicago teachers’ strike grinds into third day

  September 12, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The public teachers’ strike that has halted classwork and upset family routines across Chicago ground into a third day Wednesday with some movement reported by union and …

• Parents support Chicago teachers but for how long?

  September 11, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — As Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a second day, they were joined by many of the very people who are most inconvenienced by their strike: … 1

• Striking Chicago teachers get support from parents

  September 11, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — As Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a second day, they were joined by many of the very people who are most inconvenienced by their walkout: …

• Chicago teachers strike rolls into 2nd day

  September 11, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Negotiators were back behind closed doors Tuesday on the second day of Chicago’s teachers strike, but publicly the teachers union and school board couldn’t even agree on …

• Ex-prof pleads guilty to killing Ala. colleagues

  September 11, 2012 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A former biology professor accused of pulling a gun from her purse and opening fire at a faculty meeting pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing three colleagues … 1

• Chicago kids, teachers brace for Day 2 of strike

  September 11, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Rose Davis wasn’t about to let her two young grandchildren walk alone through one of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods, even though they were going to a school …

• Chicago teacher strike poses test for unions

  September 11, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive teachers’ strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation’s teachers’ unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing reform movement … 1

• Chicago pupils, teachers brace for Day 2 of strike

  September 11, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Rose Davis wasn’t about to let her two young grandchildren walk alone through one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods, even though they were going to a …

• Chicago teachers strike will roll into 2nd day

  September 10, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The head of the Chicago School Board president says the teacher strike will enter a second day after negotiators failed to reach an agreement Monday. David Vitale …

• Chicago teachers strike in bitter contract dispute

  September 10, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to …

• Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years

  September 10, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — For the first time in a quarter-century, thousands of Chicago teachers walked off the job Monday, escalating a bitter contract dispute over evaluations, job security and other …

• Emanuel vows to end strike, get kids back in class

  September 10, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — City officials vowed to keep hundreds of thousands of students safe when striking teachers hit the picket lines Monday and school district and teachers union leaders resumed …

• Chicago mayor: Teacher strike ‘unnecessary’

  September 9, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the strike called by the Chicago Teachers Union is “unnecessary” and unfair to the city’s school children. The mayor spoke shortly after …

• Chicago teachers to strike after talks fail

  September 9, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Teachers Union announced Sunday night that it will go on strike Monday morning for the first time in 25 years after contract talks with the …

• Chicago teachers, school board halt strike talks

  September 9, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago public school board president says talks with the teachers union have been called off as the clock winds down to avert the city’s first teachers … 1

• Parents plan for kids if Chicago teachers strike

  September 9, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children’s education might …

• Talks to avert Chicago teachers’ strike to resume

  September 9, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Negotiators for Chicago’s teachers union and school board plan to resume tense contract talks at 11 a.m. Sunday after reporting some progress on Saturday. The teachers have …

• Chicago teachers say latest offer disappointing

  September 8, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union said Saturday the city school district’s latest offer in contract negotiations was disappointing and that the wrangling would continue …

• In Chicago, lifeline schools brace for strike

  September 3, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — Elfega Cazares isn’t taking sides in the standoff between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools over contract talks. Like many of the immigrant parents in …

• The market’s tough for would-be teachers

  March 18, 2009 in City on Page A1 Carrie Palmateer has attended the Washington Educators Career Fair held in Spokane each spring for the past four years. She still hasn’t landed a teaching job.

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