Poll: 47% of Chicago voters support striking teachers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/11/1130467/-Poll-47-of-Chicago-voters-support-striking-teachers

By Laura Clawson for Daily Kos Labor

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(Chicago Teachers Union)

Chicago teachers are taking on the education agenda of the one percent, and that means they're taking a beating in the media. But a new poll shows that it would be a mistake to take negative headlines and criticism from pundits and politicians as representative of what Chicago voters think. It turns out that 47 percent support the strike, with 39 percent opposed.

Additionally, less than 20 percent of the registered voters surveyed by McKeon & Associates said that Mayor Rahm Emanuel was doing a "good" or "excellent" job handling the strike.

The Chicago Teachers Union denies claims by Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools management that a deal is near:

"The Chicago Teachers Union has 49 Articles in its contract, to date, we have only signed off on six of them," said union spokeswoman Stephanie Gadlin. "The Chicago Public Schools has made proposals to change nearly every article. It is not accurate to say both sides are extremely close-this is misinformation on behalf of the Board and Mayor Emanuel. We have a considerable way to go. This is a fact they cannot deny."

FULL story at link.

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1. k&r...

[HiPointDem]

2. kr. and registered voters skew to upper income. which means support of all chicagoans is

likely stronger.

[Mponti]

3. Just had dinner with 11 guys in Boystown, Chicago

all -- and I mean ALL -- strongly support the teachers