Chicago teachers are threatening to strike if they don't get get enforceable school district commitments on smaller class sizes and hiring more support staff.
If Chicago does strike, teachers around the country will be closely watching parents’ response to a walkout based on the unions’ “social justice” agenda beyond state school funding or teachers’ pay, experts said.
After a change in union leadership in 2010, the Chicago teachers union partnered with other community groups working on poverty and crime. Teachers walked out for seven days in 2012, filling Chicago streets and using the bargaining process to force conversations on how those broader issues affected their students.
The response to those protests reassured teachers of the public’s support, said Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association. Those changes still affect a school district’s bottom line, and education funding in most states was never fully restored after the Great Recession, said Kency Nittler, director of teacher policy at the National Council on Teacher Quality.
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