Either the rules apply to everyone or they apply to no one. Unless you're in Chicago politics:
- Chicago's school board is expected to decide today if it will grant a waiver allowing its new chief administrative officer to live outside the city.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has endorsed the two-year waiver so that Tim Cawley, the third-ranking CPS executive, can continue to live in Winnetka.
CPS grants waivers for teachers in high-need areas like special education and math, but this would be a first for an administrator, district officials said. And the waiver would come at a time when the district has been vigorously enforcing the residency rule.
Rules are for peons, not big politically-connected individuals who stand to make hundreds of thousands in tax payer money from being in Rahm's good graces.
And this is going to provoke a strike shortly:
And this is going to provoke a strike shortly:
More than 1,000 angry teachers encircled the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday, chanting “Rahm Emanuel has got to go,” just before Emanuel’s hand-picked school board members voted to approve raises for top executives a week after they rejected raises for teachers.
The throng — as many as five deep — wound around the entire block, stopping morning traffic and urging drivers with their signs to “honk if you support teachers.” As a result, blaring car horns often accompanied chanting protesters.
For being so pro-union, all the screwing around these here parts seems to be done by democrats.