Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: CORE TEAM WINS BIG IN CTU ELECTION

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: CORE TEAM WINS BIG IN CTU ELECTION

CORE TEAM WINS BIG IN CTU ELECTION

by Mike Klonsky

Congratulations to new Chicago Teachers Union president, Karen Lewis and the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) team for their remarkable landslide victory in yesterday's union election. CORE's victory represents much more than just a win over the United Progressive Caucus (UPC) and the six-year CTU president Marilyn Stewart. It is a sign that rank-and-file teachers are fed-up with the business-as-usual politics