Chicago’s final decision to close 50 public schools – the single biggest reported closure in U.S. history – has again pitted Mayor Rahm Emanuel against the powerful teachers union.
The Democratic mayor is backing the city school board’s vote last week to help reduce an estimated $1 billion budget shortfall by closing the under-attended elementary schools and programs.
"This decision has been delayed for a decade, and it's our children and our city that have paid the price for inaction," Emanuel said when the closures were proposed in March. "Consolidating schools is the best way to make sure all of our city's students get the resources they need to succeed in the classroom."
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...Whether the union can unseat Emanuel, a former Illinois congressman and chief of staff for President Obama, remains to be seen. But Lewis and other union leaders have already moved beyond bluster, hosting at least one in a series of planned training sessions for volunteers to register 100,000 new voters...Read the full story HERE.
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