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UNO teachers respond to right-wing Illinois Policy Institute interference. | Fred Klonsky

UNO teachers respond to right-wing Illinois Policy Institute interference. | Fred Klonsky:


UNO teachers respond to right-wing Illinois Policy Institute interference.

Paul Kersey of the union-bashing right-wing Illinois Policy Institute has his nose all bent out of shape by the success of the union organizing campaign at charter schools run by the United Neighborhood Organization (UNO).
UNO teachers responded to Kersey’s interference in their affairs.
April 24, 2013
Paul Kersey
Director of Labor Policy Illinois Policy Institute
RE: Unwelcome interference
Dear Sir:
We are teachers and other education professionals leading the effort to organize a union at UNO charter schools with Chicago ACTS. We are building a union at our schools because we believe 


Arne Duncan’s secret Chicago “Clout to the Top” list.

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Arne Duncan kept a Clout to the Top log.
Back in 2010 then Mayor Richard Daley denied their was a Clout to the Top list that allowed City Hall favorites special entry to Chicago’s selective admission high schools.
SunTimes:
A secret log of clout-heavy Chicagoans seeking to help kids win admission to elite public schools was a complaint file, not a back-channel admissions process, Mayor Daley said today.
Daley said there was nothing wrong with former Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan’s