The Chicago Teachers Union voted on Wednesday to walk off the job on 1 April and close down the schools for the day in a battle with district officials over funding and a new contract.
Charter operators have battled the district over such issues as recruiting students and getting access to district classrooms.
After the fear, aloofness and manipulation that have been the coin of the Bush administration's realm, a district-by-district battle for the Democratic nomination is what the country needed to reignite dulled senses and cowed hopes.
With less money coming in and crucial battles in districts that have historically leaned Democratic, they face a challenge trying to regain both legislative houses.
Understandably, many Democrats who are facing election battles in districts that voted for Trump didn't like the way this was heading.
As part an agreement that also granted opposition fighters safe exit from the city once regarded as the 'capital of the revolution', bulldozers cleared rubble from the streets of battle-scarred districts to lay bare the level of destruction.
"If you're a parent of a child that has been diagnosed with something like autism, you are not going to wait," said Gary S. Mayerson, a New York lawyer who specializes in representing families battling school districts over care for disabled children.
Commenting on the parallel decisions in Orange and Salt Lake City, Jon W. Davidson, a supervising lawyer with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which represented students in both districts, said, "I think the message of both of these districts is it's a losing battle for school districts to try and prevent students from forming the clubs they want, including gay-straight alliances".
In the battle to succeed District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau in Manhattan, the candidates appear to be evenly matched financially.
More than 30 insurgents were killed in the battle, in Zerok District, said Hamidullah Zawak, the provincial governor's spokesman.
