reformers like former Washington, DC, Chancellor Michelle Rhee or foundations like Gates are portrayed as simply uninformed or misguided rather than actively working to undermine education as a collective good. See Lois Weiner,
The Future of Our School: Teachers Unions and Social Justice
, Haymarket Books, 2012; Lois Weiner and Mary Compton, eds.,
The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions
, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
5 Will Johnson, “Lean Production,”
Jacobin
, Winter 2013.
6 Joanne Barkan, “Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools,”
Dissent
, Winter 2011.
7 Stephanie Simon, “Mayors Back Parents Seizing Control of Schools,”
Reuters
, June 18, 2012. On the undemocratic premise underlying parent trigger laws, see Liza Featherstone, “ ‘Empowerment’ Against Democracy: Tinseltown and the Teachers’ Unions,”
Dissent
, September 26, 2012.
8 Barkan, “Got Dough?”
9 Pauline Lipman,
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
, Routledge, 2011.
10 Ibid., p. 61.
11 Antonio Villaraigosa, “It Is Time for Teachers Unions to Join the Education Reform Team,”
Huffington Post
, December 7, 2010. Stan Wilson, “L.A. Mayor Backs Weighing Student Performance in Evaluating Teacher Quality,” CNN, September 12, 2012.
12 Frank Bruni, “Teachers on the Defensive,”
New York Times
, June 27, 2010.
13 Joe Nocera, “Obama’s New Cabinet,”
New York Times
, November 26, 2012.
14 Dana Goldstein, “The Education Wars,”
American Prospect
, March 20, 2009.
15 Cleveland: Lee Sustar, “Can the AFT Meet the Challenge?”
Socialist Worker
, July 25, 2012. Newark: Josh Eidelson, “Newark Teachers Union Embraces Performance Pay, Wins Peer Review,”
In These Times
, October 22, 2012; Devin Leonard, “Facebook and the Newark Schools: About that $100 Million …”
BusinessWeek
, June 28, 2012; “Newark, N.J., Teachers Ratify Contract,” American Federation of Teachers, November 14, 2012.
16 “Dynamic Duo: Randi Weingarten and Rahm Emanuel—CGI America 2012,” YouTube. On the Infrastructure Trust and its implications for infrastructure projects and the public sphere, see Ramsin Canon, “It’s Not the Privatization, It’s the Privatization,”
Gapers Block
, April 16, 2012, gapersblock.com .
17 “Karen Lewis on the ‘Ed Show’: Rahm Is ‘Absolutely’ Anti-Teacher,”
Huffington Post
, October 11, 2011; Ben Goldberger, “Karen Lewis, Street Fighter,”
Chicago
, November 2012.
18 Joe Macare, “Hipster Alderman Agrees With Fox Host: ‘Blow Up’ Chicago Schools,”
Occupied Chicago Tribune
, September 12, 2012, occupiedchicagotribune.org .
19 George Schmidt, “AFT Reports: Chicago Played Major role in the American Federation of Teachers Convention in 2012,”
Substance News
, August 1, 2012, substancenews.net .
20 Chicago Schools Forward, “Stand Up to the Fat Cats,” December 9, 2012, YouTube; Karen Lewis, “Karen Lewis Takes Aim at a Critic of CPS Teachers,”
Chicago Tribune
, September 14, 2012; “Mayor’s Adviser Attacks CTU,”
Chicago Tonight
, W TTW , September 19, 2012. video.wttw.com/video/2280999377/ .
21 Stephen Lerner, “An Injury to All: Going Beyond Collective Bargaining As We Have Known It,”
New Labor Forum
, Spring 2010.
22 The long-term viability of several of these contract demands, such as negotiating smaller class sizes and hiring new teachers, has been thrown into question, however, as CPS carried out massive budget cuts and teacher layoffs in the lead-up to the 2013 school year.
23 Ted Cox, “CTU’s Karen Lewis Blames ‘Rich White People’ for Education Inequity,”
DNAInfo.com
, June 18, 2013.
24 John F. Lyons gives an account of the history of this and other racial justice struggles within the union in
Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929–70
, University of Illinois Press, 2008.
25 Kim Moody,
U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, The
The Future of Our School: Teachers Unions and Social Justice
, Haymarket Books, 2012; Lois Weiner and Mary Compton, eds.,
The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions
, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
5 Will Johnson, “Lean Production,”
Jacobin
, Winter 2013.
6 Joanne Barkan, “Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools,”
Dissent
, Winter 2011.
7 Stephanie Simon, “Mayors Back Parents Seizing Control of Schools,”
Reuters
, June 18, 2012. On the undemocratic premise underlying parent trigger laws, see Liza Featherstone, “ ‘Empowerment’ Against Democracy: Tinseltown and the Teachers’ Unions,”
Dissent
, September 26, 2012.
8 Barkan, “Got Dough?”
9 Pauline Lipman,
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
, Routledge, 2011.
10 Ibid., p. 61.
11 Antonio Villaraigosa, “It Is Time for Teachers Unions to Join the Education Reform Team,”
Huffington Post
, December 7, 2010. Stan Wilson, “L.A. Mayor Backs Weighing Student Performance in Evaluating Teacher Quality,” CNN, September 12, 2012.
12 Frank Bruni, “Teachers on the Defensive,”
New York Times
, June 27, 2010.
13 Joe Nocera, “Obama’s New Cabinet,”
New York Times
, November 26, 2012.
14 Dana Goldstein, “The Education Wars,”
American Prospect
, March 20, 2009.
15 Cleveland: Lee Sustar, “Can the AFT Meet the Challenge?”
Socialist Worker
, July 25, 2012. Newark: Josh Eidelson, “Newark Teachers Union Embraces Performance Pay, Wins Peer Review,”
In These Times
, October 22, 2012; Devin Leonard, “Facebook and the Newark Schools: About that $100 Million …”
BusinessWeek
, June 28, 2012; “Newark, N.J., Teachers Ratify Contract,” American Federation of Teachers, November 14, 2012.
16 “Dynamic Duo: Randi Weingarten and Rahm Emanuel—CGI America 2012,” YouTube. On the Infrastructure Trust and its implications for infrastructure projects and the public sphere, see Ramsin Canon, “It’s Not the Privatization, It’s the Privatization,”
Gapers Block
, April 16, 2012, gapersblock.com .
17 “Karen Lewis on the ‘Ed Show’: Rahm Is ‘Absolutely’ Anti-Teacher,”
Huffington Post
, October 11, 2011; Ben Goldberger, “Karen Lewis, Street Fighter,”
Chicago
, November 2012.
18 Joe Macare, “Hipster Alderman Agrees With Fox Host: ‘Blow Up’ Chicago Schools,”
Occupied Chicago Tribune
, September 12, 2012, occupiedchicagotribune.org .
19 George Schmidt, “AFT Reports: Chicago Played Major role in the American Federation of Teachers Convention in 2012,”
Substance News
, August 1, 2012, substancenews.net .
20 Chicago Schools Forward, “Stand Up to the Fat Cats,” December 9, 2012, YouTube; Karen Lewis, “Karen Lewis Takes Aim at a Critic of CPS Teachers,”
Chicago Tribune
, September 14, 2012; “Mayor’s Adviser Attacks CTU,”
Chicago Tonight
, W TTW , September 19, 2012. video.wttw.com/video/2280999377/ .
21 Stephen Lerner, “An Injury to All: Going Beyond Collective Bargaining As We Have Known It,”
New Labor Forum
, Spring 2010.
22 The long-term viability of several of these contract demands, such as negotiating smaller class sizes and hiring new teachers, has been thrown into question, however, as CPS carried out massive budget cuts and teacher layoffs in the lead-up to the 2013 school year.
23 Ted Cox, “CTU’s Karen Lewis Blames ‘Rich White People’ for Education Inequity,”
DNAInfo.com
, June 18, 2013.
24 John F. Lyons gives an account of the history of this and other racial justice struggles within the union in
Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929–70
, University of Illinois Press, 2008.
25 Kim Moody,
U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, The
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