With less than two weeks until the runoff election, Chicago mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are working to present themselves as the only person that can redefine and restructure the city's declining education sector.
Both Vallas and Johnson have deep roots in Chicago's educational sphere but carry widely contrasting perspectives. Vallas served as CEO for the Chicago Public Schools district, while Johnson was a longtime Chicago Teachers Union organizer and teacher at the Jenner Academy of the Arts.
“One of my students looked me in the face and said, ‘Mr. Johnson, you should not be teaching here. ... You should be teaching at a good school,’” Johnson said during his victory speech on Feb. 28. “It broke my heart then. It breaks my heart today. I wanted to change the system.” One of his more progressive stances includes partnering with the Department of Family and Support Services to house the district's nearly 4,000 homeless students, as well as provide free transit services to students in tandem with the Chicago Transit Authority.
“I have a fiduciary responsibility to the people of the city of Chicago, and once I’m mayor of the city of Chicago, I will no longer be a member of the Chicago Teachers Union,” Johnson said."This narrative that our children are not proficient, keep in mind that it’s based on the standardized test that has history in eugenics that was trying to prove that black people were inferior,” Johnson said at a mayoral forum.
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