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