By Lucia Folk
In the 21st century, more than ever before, education is a nation’s economic engine. Ensuring that U.S.
Well, we are now into the second week of a unionized teacher strike in the country’s third-largest school district.
Of the 402,000 students currently enrolled in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), 52,000 of them are in school this week—those attending one of the roughly 100 charter schools in the district.
As of 12:00 a.m. this morning, more than 26,000 teachers in Chicago officially went on a union-led strike impacting 400,000 kids in 675 schools.
By Tom Donohue
As we gear up for a new school year, it’s worth highlighting a subject as essential to many young Americans’ education and our collective future as reading, writing, and arithmetic—entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, it’s often overlooked.
In case you missed last week's GOP No Child Left Behind Debate the blow-by-blow run down is below: