Posted by: preaprez on: 23 Aug, 2007
Illinois Federation of Teachers in Harlem, Illinois are on strike. Wages are the issue. 8,000 students will get an extended summer break. The last time Harlem teachers walked the line three years ago the strike lasted two weeks.
Harlem is just north of Rockford and just south of Beloit, Wisconsin.
Posted by: preaprez on: 23 Aug, 2007
Brother Mike’s Small Talk talks about the Khalil Gibran Academy story and reflects on being multi-cultural and being American.
Jews For Racial and Economic Justice describes their close relationship with fired principal, Debbie Almontaser.
UFT member Sean Ahern writes to Edwize and expresses concern about Almontaser’s firing and its implications for civil liberties and academic freedom in [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 23 Aug, 2007
Hundreds protest Debbie Almontaser’s firing. In spite of what Leo Casey says in his comments to my posting, My Mistake I didn’t bus them in from Chicago. They’re actually from New York.
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