Should teacher pension money support anti-union University of Chicago charter schools?…
Jim Vail – February 15, 2010 The Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund (CTPF) wants to hire the best money managers to make the Fund money so that teachers can retire with a nice pension. But what if the head of one of those investment firms they hired also sits on the Board of Directors of a notoriously anti-union charter school — created as part of Mayor Daley’s Renaissance 2010 Plan — which is destroying the Chicago Teachers Union and other unions by replacing unionized schools with non-union charter or contract schools? A tattered American flag flew over the University of Chicago charter school “Donoghue Campus” in November 2006 as the anti-union charter schools sponsored by America’s foremost “free market” university began its privileged expansion across the South Side. The Donoghue Elementary School building, which once provided a public school education to thousands of children from the nearby Ida B. Wells public housing project, became part of the overall plan for the gentrification o
