NEA RA delegates. Welcome to Chicago.
Many of the 9,000 delegates to the NEA RA are arriving in town. Although the RA doesn’t begin until later this week, there are pre-convention meetings, including the NEA Retired meeting that starts today.
I’ll be heading over to the Palmer House on Thursday for the first session of the Illinois Caucus.
Greetings to all my NEA brothers and sisters.
For those of you visiting Chicago for the first time, this is a great city.
On the other hand, it also has Rahm Emanuel as mayor and JC Brizard as school CEO. They both plan to announce the firing of 1,000 teachers this week.
Rahm also had his hand-picked school board vote to rescind the 4% pay increase that was bargained in the last