wrote that King needed to be far clearer<\/a> in her opposition to CTU\u2019s May Day plans.<\/p>\nTo her credit, King subsequently said in no uncertain terms that she wouldn\u2019t support changing the school calendar and added that if the board wanted to close schools on May 1, it would have to vote in open session to do so.<\/p>\n
So the ball is now in the court of board President Sean Harden, an appointee and supporter of the mayor, who will have to decide whether to call for a special meeting. Will he?<\/p>\n
We suspect that will depend on whether CTU President Stacy Davis Gates and Johnson, the former CTU organizer propelled into the mayor\u2019s office with millions in CTU donations, direct Harden to try to twist the necessary arms on his board.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll also hazard an educated guess that quite a few on the 21-member school board would prefer to let the issue die quietly, since most of them (not Harden, interestingly) appear to be running in November in what will be Chicago\u2019s first-ever full school board election. It\u2019s one thing to raise your hand in a straw vote during a closed session. It\u2019s quite another to put yourself on the record for something so dunderheaded, which can and will be used against you in an election a few months from now.<\/p>\n
We doubt very much that a majority of Chicagoans \u2014 and certainly most CPS parents \u2014 are in favor of teachers taking an unscheduled (but paid, naturally) day off to march in favor of CTU\u2019s far-left political goals. The attack ads practically write themselves.<\/p>\n
Should Harden choose to schedule that special meeting, knowing which board members chose to keep kids out of school to kowtow to the CTU would be most clarifying for Chicago voters in November.<\/p>\n
But, for the sake of CPS parents, it would be best to let this latest sorry chapter in the management of Chicago\u2019s schools under Mayor Johnson die a quiet death, even as Chicago\u2019s kids breathe life into a May 1 day of learning.<\/p>\n
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