Schools Matter: Change Is Coming to Chicago Education: Will the AFT and NEA Smell the Coffee?

Schools Matter: Change Is Coming to Chicago Education: Will the AFT and NEA Smell the Coffee?

Change Is Coming to Chicago Education: Will the AFT and NEA Smell the Coffee?

by Jim Horn

Progressives should be celebrating in Chicago and everywhere else that ranks learning over testing and accountability over accounting. From the Chicago Sun-Times:

June 13, 2010

BY MARY WISNIEWSKI AND ROSALIND ROSSI Staff Reporters

Karen Lewis, a high school chemistry teacher who has been a fierce opponent of Mayor Daley's Renaissance 2010 program to shake up and rejuvenate public schools, handily defeated two-term president Marilyn Stewart for the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union early Saturday.

Lewis and her Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) slate won in a virtual sweep against Stewart's United Progressive Caucus team that has been in power for 37 of the last 40 years, with Lewis trouncing Stewart by a 3-2 margin.

The change in CTU leadership -- Lewis takes the reins July 1 -- could put Mayor Daley in a