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The Resource A fight for the soul of public education : the story of the Chicago teachers strike, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno

A fight for the soul of public education : the story of the Chicago teachers strike, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno

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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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eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource (ix, 309 pages)
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
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9781501705939
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A fight for the soul of public education : the story of the Chicago teachers strike
Title
A fight for the soul of public education
Title remainder
the story of the Chicago teachers strike
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Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno
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Language
eng
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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Ashby, Steven K
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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1955-
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Bruno, Robert
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  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Education and state
  • Teachers
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • HISTORY
  • Education and state
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Teachers
  • Illinois
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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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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mixed
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text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn952943130
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (ix, 309 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781501705939
Lccn
2016030946
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computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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  • 978105
  • 22573/ctt20dh09z
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)952943130
Label
A fight for the soul of public education : the story of the Chicago teachers strike, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn952943130
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (ix, 309 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781501705939
Lccn
2016030946
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 978105
  • 22573/ctt20dh09z
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)952943130

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