Jonah Edelman’s Stand for Children bankrolling Chicago turnarounds.
Jonah Edelman: “I came. I saw. I spent three million bucks.”
Following his success in doing a bamboozle on the IEA and the Illinois General Assembly in getting Senate Bill 7 passed, Jonah Edelman’s Oregon-based Stand for Children is using its deep $3 million pockets to back Rahm Emanuel’s plan for turnarounds.
Catalyst reports:
Stand for Children was a staunch supporter of Senate Bill 7, which limited teacher tenure and made it more difficult for teachers to strike. Senate Bill 7 also gave Chicago school leaders the power to unilaterally lengthen the school day, which had previously been a subject in collective bargaining.
After the bill was passed last year, in a speech in front of the Aspen Institute, Executive Director Josh Edelman described how his group outfoxed the CTU in getting the bill passed and bragged that the bill would effectively prevent the teachers from ever striking.
Edelman wound up apologizing for his remarks, but his descriptions left a bad
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