Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Jay Travis: Yesterday was a good day

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Jay Travis: Yesterday was a good day:

Jay Travis: Yesterday was a good day

Jay Travis is the progressive hope, running for State Rep in the 26th Dist. against corporate reformer and pension grabber, Christian Mitchell.

JT reports from Springfield:

House Bill 557, calling for an elected representative school board for the people of Chicago, was passed out of committee by a vote of 15-9. That same morning, Chicago public school students, parents, community residents and teachers staged 'walk-ins' at more than a hundred neighborhood schools across the city to bring critical attention to the need to invest public dollars in our neighborhood schools instead of giveaways to wealthy, politically connected elites.

More on Mitchell...Chicago Reporter's Curtis Black, writes:

Indeed, Mitchell has been one of the top recipients of funds both statewide and nationally from Stand For Children, a group brought to Illinois by Rauner in an effort to undercut union influence and bargaining rights; it’s backed by a bevy of billionaires including Republican Ken Griffin.

But particularly on education policy, Mitchell does seem to have Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Jay Travis: Yesterday was a good day: