Chicago teacher and award-winning blogger Marilyn Rhames paints an awesome illustrations of “Mr. CPS” dying. Yesterday, I woke up to the news that 292 people were shot and 51 people murdered in Chicago in the first month of the New Year. Then later in the day, I learned that the tentative offer Chicago Public Schools (CPS) made to the Chicago…
Month: February 2016
What I’ve Learned from Working at a Charter School
I started working at Johnson College Prep about 2 months after I returned home from teaching overseas in South Korea as an English teacher. Teaching at Johnson was the first teaching job upon my arrival back stateside. Needless to say, my transition was fairly quick.
Too Good to Be True: CTU Should Have Taken the Offer
There’s an old saying that goes, “If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.” Today, the Chicago Teachers Union’s “Big Bargaining Team” applied that logic in their unanimous vote to reject what Union President Karen Lewis had termed “a serious offer” from Chicago Public Schools.