DePaul University faculty experts are available to provide expert commentary on the Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike, including labor negotiations, economic impact on Chicago, conflict resolution, the teacher evaluation plan and longer school day.

Professors available to speak include:

Diane Horwitz, adjunct faculty, College of Education. She can discuss the proposed CPS evaluation plan for teachers, including research on the use of student-growth scores in teacher evaluations, the implications for curriculum and the hasty implementation of a complex process. She can be reached at dhorwit1@depaul.edu or 847-332-2756.

Andrea Kayne Kaufman, associate professor, College of Education. An expert in school law and school negotiations, she can discuss the school collective bargaining process, including the issues, the impasse, the negotiations, the strike and resolution. She teaches courses in School Law and Conflict Resolution to graduate students (mostly full-time teachers) seeking state certification to be school administrators. She can be reached at 773-325-7661 or akaufman@depaul.edu.

Erin Mason, assistant professor, College of Education. She can discuss Chicago Teachers Union demands for more school counselors and other support staff. Mason is a professor of school counseling and current president of the Illinois School Counselors Association. She can be reached at 773-245-3746 or emason5@depaul.edu.

Barbara Radner, director, Center for Urban Education; associate professor, School for New Learning. She can discuss school reform and the effects of No Child Left Behind, having served on committees charged with implementing the program. She can discuss the challenges of making school reform work, based on her work with 80 Chicago Public Schools. She can be reached at 312-362-5155, 773-899-0409 or bradner@depaul.edu.

Emily Rosenberg, director, DePaul Labor Education Center. Rosenberg can discuss labor unions, strikes, the history of the union movement, trends in labor, leadership training, collective bargaining, arbitration, labor organizing and public sector unions. She is a former teachers union president. She can be reached at 773-338-6710 or erosenbe@depaul.edu.

William Sander, professor, economics, Driehaus College of Business. He can discuss the economic impact of the CPS teachers’ strike and the impact of spending on achievement levels. He can be reached at 312-362-5240 or wsander@depaul.edu.

Marc Wigler, adjunct faculty, College of Education. Wigler has negotiated two contracts with CPS and worked under the previous CTU administration for six years. His labor-management collaboration skills have been recognized both locally and nationally in helping to bring about school reform. Having worked with the now-Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, Wigler brings a unique perspective to the table, having worked on both sides of labor and management. He has been a CPS employee for the last 18 years, teaching kindergarten for 10 years and having just finished working in the Office of Early Childhood Education for the last two years. He is a still a CPS citywide teacher and on strike now. He can be reached at 773-852-6332 or mwigler@depaul.edu.

James Wolfinger, associate professor of history and education. He can discuss 20th century U.S. history, with an emphasis on issues of politics, labor and urban development. He has appeared on CNBC, NBC, WGN radio and WTTW and in the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune discussing political, labor and urban issues. Author of the 2007 book “Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love.” He can be reached at 773-325-4290 or jwolfing@depaul.edu.