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- Alderman Emma Mitts (37th Ward): not a fan of the Chicago Teachers Union
On election night Alderman Emma Mitts let her 37th Ward constituents know that she was ready for war.
Just a few months after that school opened, the Chicago Plan Commission approved a new $20 million charter in Mitts’s ward, this one part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. Mitts—and Mayor Rahm Emanuel—received pushback on that school because it’s across the street from a regular public high school, Prosser Career Academy.
“I think that shows just how out of touch she is with the neighbors of the 37th Ward,” Stamps said of Mitts’s support for charter schools. “They recognize they were sold a bad deal and they didn’t realize that until it was too late.”
But Pulphus said no one has formally reached out to the alderman regarding either forum, though Mitts is open to the idea of a debate.
