Nathan Goldbaum, Author at A Just Chicago

Nathan Goldbaum is a Member Communications Coordinator for the Chicago Teachers Union. Mr. Goldbaum has been an activist for over 20 years and came to the Chicago Public Schools in 2006. He lives in South Shore.

No longer publishing here

Nathan Goldbaum June 30, 2018 September 6, 2019Uncategorized

CTU researchers will continue to publish on our union website. After much consideration, staff of the Chicago Teachers Union—who had done the bulk of contributing and upkeep of this site—decided to focus our efforts elsewhere. You can continue to…

On Anita Alvarez’s New Drug Policy

Nathan Goldbaum April 29, 2015 June 8, 2015Health, Justice

BYP 100 protest marijuana prosecutions in 2014

As the report A Just Chicago notes, as an alternative to incarceration “drug treatment in the community is twice as effective at curtailing drug use, keeps students from having a parent in prison, and, in Illinois, costs 63% less (Kane-Willis,…