Under New Leaders, Changes Anticipated for Chicago’s Union

The new leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union say they are discussing changes to union elections and have begun to look hard at the union’s professional-development center.

After an investigation into the CTU’s most recent presidential election, the American Federation of Teachers declared last month that Marilyn Stewart had fairly unseated incumbent Deborah Lynch. Though Ms. Lynch vehemently contested the finding by the parent union, she agreed to step down from the job she had held for three years.

In a report released the same day as that finding, the AFT also recommended an election-procedure switch from school-based ballot...