Taking Teachers to Task: Facing Chicago’s Challenges Over Time, produced at Hull House on Saturday, March 16, 2013, focused on Chicago battles over public schools, teacher rights, community involvement and democracy in public education.
Actors delivered key historical speeches of educational leaders from 100 years ago–Margaret Haley, Jacob Loeb, Ella Flagg Young. Key issues of the present were presented by two of today’s educators, Elizabeth Todd-Breland and Jennifer L. Johnson.