The real issues in the Chicago teachers strike and why they should matter to us here in NYC: Leonie Haimson on CNBC
See the video from last night below, in which I stood up for the teachers in Chicago, three against one, on the Kudlow Report on CNBC. I tried to explain why most voters and parents in Chicago support the teachers, and how the strike is about many issues, one of them being class size. In the NY Times yesterday, a Kindergarten teacher revealed that she has a class size of 43 students. Another Chicago teacher, Philip Cantor has spoken out on MSNBC about how he has a class of 41 with 12 students with special needs. (Here's more on class size in the Chicago public schools.)
When mayoral control was established 17 years ago in Chicago, the power of the union to negotiate on class
