Teacher union leaders staged a charged rally in downtown Chicago yesterday punctuated by Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis asking the assembled crowd, “What are we here for?” and the crowd chanting back, “Strike!”
Kristie Mayle, financial secretary of CTU, did say that the union is still negotiating with the Chicago Public Schools over a collective bargaining contract that expires June 30. But the clear message yesterday was one of fierce acrimony toward Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Also, speakers portrayed CTU on the front line of a national battle to preserve labor union rights.
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Thousands of 
More than 2,000 NATO and anti-war protestors gathered in Grant Park
Sunday before they took to the streets and descended on McCormick Place
where world leaders are meeting for the summit.
Chicago Public School teachers work almost double their required
daily instruction hours, according to a new study released Monday, and
the findings worry some teacher advocates as the district gets ready to 
A group of neighborhood organizations are holding a candlelight vigil this afternoon to protest proposed Chicago Public Schools closings and turnarounds. 
Ten members of nine local school councils Thursday filed a lawsuit
with the Circuit Court of Cook County seeking to stop the Chicago Public
Schools Board from closing or 
Classes resumed today for Chicago Public Schools – with forty
schools, 38 of them charters, extending their school day from five hours
and forty-five minutes to seven hours and thirty minutes.
The Chicago Public Schools 