(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
“Chicago Public Schools have a gang problem. The gang, however, is not the BDs (Black Disciples), the gang is not the GDs (Gangster Disciples), the gang is not the Vice Lords and the gang is not the Four Corner Hustlers. The gang is the Chicago Teachers Union.”
— State Sen. James T. Meeks, D-Chicago, chair of the Illinois Senate’s Education Committee, Oct. 17, 2009.
Wow- Meeks is not only a state Senator and chair of the Illinois Senate Education Committee, an African American minister and long time friend of Obama. Read more about his unfolding war with the Chicago teacher union in the Chicago Tribune.
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