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ABC7's Ben Bradley sat down with Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis to discuss her possible run for mayor.

We don't know where nearly half of the students in Chicago's 50 closed schools wound up. We know that several thousand never sh...

Rahm's PR team is trying to spin the slight reduction in Chicago murders as a plus for his policing policies even as our city's vi...

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on the...

Byrd-Bennett takes umbrage Barbara Byrd-Bennett She also took umbrage with the use of the term "layoffs," instead preferrin...

A good sign for Karen Lewis . She's already got them nervous.  No sooner had she hinted that she was "seriously considering...

“I’m a little sick of the mayor and I don’t see anyone stepping up,” Lewis told the Chicago Sun-Times by telephone Thursday evening. “I a...

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Outgoing Inspector General James Sullivan on Chicago Tonight , tells what his investigation reveals about Bruce Rauner's clout call ...

Arne Duncan seems bent on pushing standardized-testing madness and privatization into the area of special ed and the teaching of kids wit...

BEST QUOTE OF THE DAY RE. RAHM... Comes from  S-T's Dan Mihalopoulos  --  You don’t need to speak español to understand what hipocresía...

The Race To The Top is stalling out over testing and evaluation. Common Core roll-out has been an abysmal failure. High stakes testing da...

Zephyr Teachout “The failure of the Dream Act and the failure of Fair Elections are all traceable to the fact that we don't have a De...

Previously restricted memos from Emanuel to Clinton are among thousands of White House documents kept secret until 12 years after Pres. ...

I wonder why there's no mention of the Koch Bros . in S-T's coverage of Gov. Walker's crooked campaign fundraising tactics. W...

Thanks to S-T's Dan Mihalopoulos for stating the obvious. When it comes to some of the most important issues in education today,...

Brandon Johnson is deputy political director of the Chicago Teachers Union, and heads its Black Caucus. He posts this solid piece on Labor ...

"Part of the problem..." Best quote of the day comes on the heels of Chicago being released from the 42-year-old Shakman patr...

Ken Griffin Kent Redfield “It’s certainly an indication of the increasingly large role that wealthy individuals are playing in Amer...

Bob Moses I'm taking part in a great event, "Youth Organizing For Social Justice -- Then and Now", at DePaul Student Cente...