The Chicago Teachers Union is one of the most powerful political institutions in this city. And it has more at stake in Tuesday’s mayoral runoff election than either man running for the office.
CHICAGO —
Now the union is on the cusp of either elevating one of its own organizers into City Hall’s fifth floor office suites, or losing to a longtime foil at a critical point for Chicago Public Schools and Democratic politics in the nation’s third-largest city. “All of the things happening in our city, the violence, the unhoused crisis,” she said, “those are things that become intertwined with fully funded schools, smaller class sizes, a nurse and social worker in every building.”
In Brandon Johnson — a progressive county commissioner, former CTU organizer and teacher whose soaring oratory has been a hallmark of rallies and contract fights — the union’s critics see a takeover of the city’s politics.
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