NYC Parents Stand in Solidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union

The Parent Leadership Project (Uptown, NYC) and La Unión (Brooklyn, NYC) stand in solidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union. Like Parents 4 Teachers in Chicago, we know that teachers’ working conditions are our children’s learning conditions. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been implementing similar reforms to Rahm Emanuel's in Chicago. In both cities, structures of Mayoral Control combined with federal reforms such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have claimed to make schools more accountable to students and their parents. But our experience has shown us that the opposite is true. Closing historically under-resourced ...