The New York Times has a good debate about the Chicago strike.
Eva Moskowitz and Michael Petrilli take the anti-union view.
Brian Jones, Carol Burris, and Pauline Lipman explain why the teachers’ strike is important in the fight against bad education policies that hurt children and teachers and ruin education.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
You need to keep hammering the point that American public schools are actually doing a better job that schools overseas. Asian American students do better than Asian kids in Asia, Mexican Americans do better than their counterparts in Mexico, and so on. The same goes for so-called “white” Americans of European ancestry or any other ethnic group you can name. I haven’t seen the figures for disadvantaged minorities in places like Sweden, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the conclusion is the same. You phrase it in terms of poverty but I think you can also phrase it in terms of ethnicity because it drives the point home.
This is not about our teachers — or, rather, it is about the teachers. They are doing a good job when you compare apples to apples..
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Like I Keep Saying …
It is long past time to stop giving the self-touted “reformers” the benefit of the doubt about their real intentions. They are clearly trying to drive anyone with a choice — parents, students, and teachers — out of the public school system, leaving nothing but Reform Schools in their place.
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They got rid of Carol Burris and replaced her with a pro-reformer, Rishawn Biddle.
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Oh, never mind, they just added Rishawn Biddle.
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