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Chicago Teachers Union Launches One-Day Strike

HeadlineApr 01, 2016

This comes as the Chicago Teachers Union is slated to launch a one-day strike today to protest the lack of state funding for education. The Chicago public school district currently faces a $1.1 billion deficit. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said, “We are dying the death of a thousand cuts.”

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