Chicago's Board of Education is facing a $720 billion deficit and just voted to rescind a promised 4 percent raise for teachers. Yesterday Governor Pat Quinn signed into a law lengthening the school day at Chicago Public Schools.That's not all that happened on Tuesday. A Chicago Teachers Union protest that included SEIU, the CTU's president, Karen Lewis, bellowed, "I don't believe in slavery on any level. I don't believe we should work for free. Ever. And we're not going to,"
Protesters, 24 of whom were arrested, called for an end to corporate welfare.
And Lewis, a former teacher at Martin Luther King High School on the South Side, called for an end to slavery.
Hat tip to Capitol Fax.
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