Education beat: Chicago Rebukes Teachers Union

The Windy City just saw “the clearest voter referendum yet” on the Chicago Teachers Union’s “militancy and outsized impact on city politics,” the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board says.

Voters elected independent Jessica Biggs as school-board president over union-backed Hilario Dominguez; the CTU’s “strained and absurd efforts to tie Biggs to Trump” totally “fell flat.”

The board will be split “between those supporting CTU’s agenda and those who are independent,” but her tie-breaking vote keeps “control of the board out of the hands of the union” in the “near-bankrupt” district.

Chicago Teachers Union (AFT) members should “take stock of their union’s unpopularity and consider a change in direction.” Biggs must steer the board away from “agitating for more cash to prop up a bloated system,” prioritizing the 304,000 public-school students who’ve been “pawns in CTU’s ideological crusade.” And, remember, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is a former CTU Union Organizer.