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The Chicago Model w/ Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han

The Dig

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The Progressive Movement Is Built Around the Infrastructure of a Militant Labor Union

Paul Vallis was the CEO of Chicago's public schools. He went on to do a rampage and cause so much pain and destruction, not just in CPS, but in New Orleans, in Haiti, in Chile, all across the planet. It was here in Chicago that teachers said, no, you are not going to deprofessionalize our profession. And it was that fight back that led to the election of Brandon Johnson as our mayor.

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