Chicago Public High School teacher Jennifer Johnson at Labor Notes

Chicago teacher, Jennifer Johnson,addressed the Labor Notes conference in Chicago earlier this month. Johnson teaches history at Lincoln Park High School in North Chicago. Her father and grandfather were both teachers and she loves her job, but she’ll strike if she has to, she told Laura Flanders. It’d be “doing justice” to her pupils.

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Chicago Public High School teacher Jennifer Johnson at Labor Notes

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