A fight for the soul of public education : the story of the Chicago teachers strike / Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno.
2016
LB2844.47.U62 A75 2016eb
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A fight for the soul of public education : the story of the Chicago teachers strike / Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno.
Author
Ashby, Steven K., author.
ISBN
9781501705939 (electronic book)
1501705938 (electronic book)
9781501704918
1501704915
9781501706486
1501706489
1501705938 (electronic book)
9781501704918
1501704915
9781501706486
1501706489
Published
Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 309 pages)
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LB2844.47.U62 A75 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.88/1137110977311
Summary
In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and transformed the scope of collective bargaining into arenas that few labor relations experts thought possible. Using interviews, first-person accounts, participant observation, union documents, and media reports, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno tell the story of the 2012 strike that shut down the Chicago school system for seven days. A Fight for the Soul of Public Education takes into account two overlapping, parallel, and equally important stories. One is a grassroots story of worker activism told from the perspective of rank-and-file union members and their community supporters. Ashby and Bruno provide a detailed account of how the strike became an international cause when other teachers unions had largely surrendered to corporate-driven education reform. The second story describes the role of state and national politics in imposing educational governance changes on public schools and draconian limitations on union bargaining rights. It includes a detailed account of the actual bargaining process revealing the mundane and the transcendental strategies of both school board and union representatives. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Bruno, Robert, 1955- author.
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Table of Contents
Education reform from Washington to Chicago
The era of mayoral control begins
Chicago school teachers and core
Evaluating teachers and political opportunism
Senate Bill 7
The contract campaign
Emanuel provokes, teachers prepare to bargain
The start of 2012 contract negotiations
A breakthrough and prelude to a strike
The strike
Bargaining during the strike and a deal reached.
The era of mayoral control begins
Chicago school teachers and core
Evaluating teachers and political opportunism
Senate Bill 7
The contract campaign
Emanuel provokes, teachers prepare to bargain
The start of 2012 contract negotiations
A breakthrough and prelude to a strike
The strike
Bargaining during the strike and a deal reached.