Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, an often controversial leader who took on Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a strike last fall and has been leading the fight against the district’s plan to close schools, was reelected to a second three-year term Friday, according to preliminary and still unofficial results released by the district.
The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) slate led by Lewis retained other officer positions, which includes vice president Jesse Sharkey, the union said.Teachers voted at their schools throughout the day. Challenging Lewis was a slate of candidates led by Tanya Saunders-Wolffe, a Chicago Public Schools counselor.
We'll have to wait to get the official results, but it's good to see the indication that the Unity-Lite/Weingarten slugs running against CORE went down to defeat.
UPDATE: Fred Klonsky posts that Lewis won 80% of the vote.
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