Chicago Teachers Union Chief Linked To Communist Party & Obama!
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks at a news conference outside the
union's headquarters in Chicago on Sept. 9, 2012
Isn’t it strange…. that when documented information is posted about the Communist Party USA and its funding… foreign national, POTUS, Obama’s name always comes up?
Well…back to the ‘poor’ Chicago teachers who make an average salary of $76,000 a year and their leader, Communist Party-linked Karen Lewis, who is believed to receive approximately $300,000 in annual compensation.
With Harry Reid’s Las Vegas, SEIU union ‘thugs’ and AFL -CIO’s chief a member of the Communist Party…they want pro-American’s support?
Give me a break!
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More Hope and Change… Mike Klonsky, an Obama supporter and former associate of the radicals who formed the terrorist group the Weatherman, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.
Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism. Later he started a blog on the Obama website:
Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.
And get this… Klonsky reportedly shared offices on the same floor with Barack Obama and Bill Ayers at the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.
So it should come as no surprise that Mike Klonsky, the former Communist Party leader, is a huge supporter of Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Chicago teachers went on strike today for the first time in 25 years despite the fact that the average teacher salary in Chicago is $74,839 a year.
Michelle Malkin has more on the Chicago education mob:
Obama served with Weather Underground terrorist and neighbor Bill Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge education initiative. Downplaying academic achievement in favor of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy. Obama served as the program’s first chairman of the board, while Ayers steered its curricular policy. The two oversaw grants to welfare rights enterprise ACORN and to avowed communist Michael Klonsky – a close pal of Ayers and member of the militant Students for a Democratic Society. SDS served as a precursor to the violent Weather Underground organization.
As investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz reported, Klonsky and Ayers teamed up on the so-called “small schools movement” to steer schoolchildren away from core academics to left-wing politicking on issues of “inequity, war, and violence.”
You just can’t make this stuff up.
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Karen Lewis: A bully and a poor leader
November 14, 2011
By: Elizabeth Tabler
Chicago Teacher's Union President Karen Lewis allowed her lack of professionalism “shine” in a speech given on Oct. 1 before the Northwest Teachers for Social Justice in Seattle, Washington.
According to the Chicago Tribune, “Karen Lewis was elected President of the 30,000 member Chicago Teachers Union on June 11, 2010. A CTU member since 1988, Lewis taught high school chemistry in Chicago Public Schools for 22 years.
Lewis has served the Union as a member of the House of Delegates, High School Functional Vice President and as a member of the Illinois State Certification Board. She received National Board Certification in 2002. In July 2010, Lewis was elected Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers and in October 2010 she was elected Executive Vice President to the 70,000 member Illinois Federation of Teachers. Lewis transferred from Mount Holyoke College to Dartmouth College where she was the only African American woman in the class of 1974.”
In her speech, her credentials and respect became immediately stained by her snide commentary. As NBC Chicago reports, “some say she crossed the line by mocking U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who speaks with a lisp. ‘Now, you know he went to private school ‘cause if he had gone to public school he would have had that lisp fixed,’ she said on stage. ‘I know – that was ugly wasn’t it? I’m sorry.’”
This outburst not only undermines the integrity of the purpose of her speech, but also allows administrators, teachers, students, and parents to see that “bullies” are a constant in schools. If we are to keep students safe, we need to cut bullies at the source. “Kyle Olsen of the Education Action group which released the video, criticized Lewis' comments about Duncan. ‘I think it was ridiculous. It was unnecessary. And it goes contrary to what we hear in school about no bullying, treating people with respect,’ Olsen said” as found by NBC Chicago.
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Chicago thuggery personified: Meet Chicago Teachers’ Union president Karen Lewis
By Michelle Malkin • September 10, 2012 10:52 AM
This is the woman leading the walkout of 26,000 public school teachers in Chicago. Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union, is a loud-mouthed “social justice” radical whose Big Labor racket would rather abandon 350,000 children to the streets than accept merit-based pay, teacher evaluations, and a 16 percent pay raise. The school board had already caved considerably on the union’s demands, but as the Chicago Sun-Times put it: “From the get-go, the union seemed intent on striking.”
Last night, Lewis mocked public charter schools that are defying the strike and doing their jobs as not “real” schools.
Derision is her specialty. Her tirades at teachers’ confabs are infamous. Don’t feel sorry for her when she moans about Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s bully tactics and trash mouth. Lewis has one of her own. Here she is bragging about smoking weed in college, cracking homophobic slurs about Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s lisp, and whining about teachers being “demonized” at a “social justice” conference:
Here’s Lewis chumming it up with former Communist Party leader Michael Klonsky, who praises her as a “fist-in-the-air, crowd-rousing, dynamic union leader.” Asked to explain increasing dissatisfaction with public education, Lewis blames lack of respect for government union teachers’ leaders on…”lower class students” and “students of color.” It’s always someone else’s fault:
Out: “For the children.”In: Blame the children. Screw the children. But then, that was always the teachers’ union’s way.
2 comments:
A few less cheeseburgers and a hairdresser wouldn't hurt.
Yeah! She needs to be the poster child for Michelle Obamas weight loss program.
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