All articles by George and Sharon Schmidt

More than 50,000 people surround Chicago Board of Education in support of teachers' strike

By the end of the afternoon of the first day of the Chicago teachers strike of 2012, more than 50,000 people, most of them wearing the now famous "CTU Red", were in downtown Chicago surrounding . . .

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SOS March on Washington a major step forward in the resistance to high-stakes testing and the defense of true public schools and teachers in the USA

The rally, on one of the hottest days in one of the hottest cities in the USA, took place before the march. Dozens of speakers gave moving speeches to the Save Our Schools (SOS) march . . .

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SUMMER VACATION: Substance editors going off the grid until August 19

The main Web production editors of Substance will be on vacation for a week, beginning on August 12, 2011, and will not be posting new stories until August 19. We will in fact be "off . . .

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SOS march draws more than 5,000 to Washington D.C. protest... Building a movement to challenge the Obama administration's corporate 'school reform' and privatization policies

The rally, on one of the hottest days in one of the hottest cities in the USA, took place before the march. Dozens of speakers gave moving speeches to the Save Our Schools (SOS) march . . .

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