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Strike date: Sept. 10
August 30, 2012
By: Catalyst Chicago staff

Reporters camped outside at the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates meeting have been told that the delegates have set a strike date of Sept. 10. 

Union officials are expected to give more details at a press conference following the meeting. A notice of intent to strike was filed yesterday with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. More to come.

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Tensions rife at school closing hearings
January 21, 2012
By: Catalyst Chicago staff

Despite a snowstorm, hundreds turned out to Friday's round of school closing hearings, and tensions were high as supporters brought on yellow school buses clashed with parents, students and community activists. 

A fight between Crane students and some of the bused-in school closing supporters broke out at the hearing on the proposed phase-out of the West Side high school, according to WBEZ/Chicago Public Media. At the hearing on the planned closing of Price Elementary School, one mother left crying and screaming, “I’m done."

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