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Salvatore Babones, Truthout: ''Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off.... The National Bureau of Economic Research declared an end to the recession three years ago. We are now in 'recovery.' So, why all the cuts?''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10640-a-democratic-country-should-put-public-education-before-corporate-profits



The Worst Teacher in Chicago

Greg Palast, Occupied Chicago Tribune: ''It s Back to School Time! Time for the editorialists and the Tea Party and Barack Obama s education secretary Arne Duncan to rip into the people who dare teach in public schools. And in Arne s old stomping grounds, Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is stomping on the teachers, pushing them into the street.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11482-greg-palast-the-worst-teacher-in-chicago



Thousands Rally in Chicago Teachers' Strike, Pushing Back Against Corporatized Education Reform

Amy Goodman and Jaisal Noor, Democracy NOW! School is out in Chicago for a second day, as public school teachers continue their first strike in 25 years. Almost 30,000 teachers and their support staff have walked out over reforms sought by the city s powerful mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who is President Obama s former chief of staff.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11489-thousands-rally-in-chicago-teachers-strike-pushing-back-against-corporatized-education-reform



On the Significance of the Chicago Teachers' Strike: Challenging Democracy s Demise

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: ''Under the guise of austerity measures, the burden of deficit reduction now becomes an excuse to remove public education from the discourse of freedom and social transformation.... The brave teachers in Chicago have had enough of this authoritarian and anti-democratic view of education. They have revolted in the name of a revolutionary ideal that inserts dignity and power back into teaching, and breathes vitality and substance back into the relationship between education and democracy.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11530-on-the-significance-of-the-chicago-teachers-strike-bearing-witness-to-and-challenging-democracys-demise



The Ghettoization of Public Education

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: Education is a recession-proof industry that will always be in high demand, but the rush to privatize it could destroy our public schools and take the middle class down with them.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13256-the-ghettoization-of-public-education



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