{"id":4474,"date":"2012-09-11T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:50:14","slug":"thousands-rally-in-chicago-teachers-strike-against-corporate-backed-education-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4474","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Rally in Chicago Teacher&#8217;s Strike Against Corporate-Backed Education Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy Now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WX3VIkOc58?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>School is out in Chicago for a second day as public school teachers continue their first strike in 25 years. Almost 30,000 teachers and their support staff have walked out over reforms sought by the city&#8217;s powerful Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who is President Obama&#8217;s former chief of staff. On Monday, tens of thousands teachers, parents and students marched in the streets of President Obama&#8217;s adopted hometown. We go to Chicago to speak with Democracy Now! correspondent Jaisal Noor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Democracy Now! School is out in Chicago for a second day as public school teachers continue their first strike in 25 years. Almost 30,000 teachers and their support staff have walked out over reforms sought by the city&#8217;s powerful Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who is President Obama&#8217;s former chief of staff. On Monday, tens of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[1570,193,1375,1107,941,1627,1108,487,1565,2869,1447,1097,41,1648,1647,1649,755,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}