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CPS, union wage legal battle over strike vote June 07, 2012 By: Sarah Karp As teachers continued the second day of the strike authorization vote, the district lost its request to a state labor board to have access to strike vote materials. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board denied a request for an emergency order that would have forced the Chicago Teachers Union to preserve material from the vote and allow the board and the district access to it. Read More \| (14) Comments	In the News: TIF spending on schools adds to inequality June 07, 2012 By: Cassandra West Chicago's beleaguered tax-increment financing program is taking another big hit, this time over where and how it's spent more than $800 million building and repairing public schools. Read More \| (0) Comments
As teachers cast votes, CPS wants access to ballots June 06, 2012 By: Rebecca Harris and Sarah Karp As Wednesday’s strike authorization vote began, a battle began brewing between the district and the Chicago Teachers Union over the voting process itself. Read More \| (19) Comments	In the News: CTU prepares for strike authorization vote June 06, 2012 By: Cassandra West Parent groups and city officials are coalescing on different sides of the strike issue as the Chicago Teachers Union prepared to take a strike authorization today. Read More \| (0) Comments
On the eve of union strike vote, battle lines are drawn June 05, 2012 By: Rebecca Harris As the Chicago Teachers Union prepares to poll teachers on whether to authorize a potential strike, parent groups and officials around the city are coalescing on different sides of the issue. Read More \| (23) Comments	In the News: Radio ad attacks union strike vote June 05, 2012 By: Cassandra West A major advertising campaign hit Chicago rush-hour radio Monday, urging parents to “text’’ in their opposition to the timing of a Chicago Teachers Union strike authorization vote that begins Wednesday. The ads are being placed by an affiliate of Democrats for Education Reform, which is packed with private equity and investment firm managers, according to CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey. Read More \| (1) Comments
Strike authorization vote to start Wednesday June 01, 2012 By: Rebecca Harris The Chicago Teachers Union officials will kick off a strike-authorization vote this Wednesday, and allow it to continue “until there is a clear result one way or the other.” Holding the vote over a multiple-day period will help the union garner more participation. Under a new law, at least 75 percent of all union members must authorize a strike potential strike. Read More \| (47) Comments	In the News: CTU accuses CPS of 'grant fraud' June 01, 2012 By: Cassandra West While the Tribune was reporting that a $35 million federal grant to implement a pilot program for a form of merit pay in Chicago Public Schools is in jeopardy because the teachers union has refused to buy in, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on Thursday asked CPS' inspector general to investigate why district officials accepted the grant two years ago requiring union collaboration that it did not receive. Read More \| (6) Comments
In the News: Why one teacher marched May 25, 2012 By: Cassandra West In a letter to the editor, a Chicago teacher explains why he participated in the big CTU rally on Wednesday: "…the privatized educational system that is being proposed by the current administration will cause irreparable harm to our students, schools, communities and our careers." Read More \| (1) Comments

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