Book Review of A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story for the Chicago Teachers Strike by Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno
Authors
Jeff Zink
Abstract
The 2012 Chicago teachers’ strike was about much more than pay. It was a fight over issues such as class size, the length of the school day and year, and school closures — the disparate racial impact they have on students and teachers of color. These issues, combined with the economic and industrial decline of Chicago, made the Chicago Public Schools a target for the corporate reform/charter schools movement.
