Ousted Chicago Teachers Union President to Take On Her Successor
The Chicago Teachers Union is in for a bumpy year.
Former President Deborah Lynch, who lost the last election by just over 500 votes, has thrown her hat into the ring to unseat her successor, Marilyn Stewart, in the May election. Negotiations for a new contract are due to start in June. And Ms. Stewart has already asked teachers to prepare for a strike—the first in more than two decades—in advance of contract talks that are expected to be contentious.
Meanwhile, jobs are decreasing. Ms. Lynch says 4,500 teacher jobs have been lost because of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s plan for school improvement, Renaissance 2010, under which 12 underperforming public schools have been closed, and new ones opened as privately run charters or contract schools whose teachers...
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