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Meeks avoided question on elected school board at the December 2010 CTU mayoral candidates' forum

Larry Duncan - January 12, 2015

Now that Governor Bruce Rauner has appointed Reverend James Meeks to be head of the Illinois Sun-Times report features Meeks, among dozens of Rauner appointees. State Board of Education (ISBE), it's important for everyone to review some of the record Meeks has established. One brief encounter with Meeks took place during the December 2010 candidates' forum sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union.

Rev. James Meeks answered questions at the CTU candidates forum in December 2010, then as noted in the Labor Beat photo above, dropped out of the race. Photo Labor Beat.Readers who wish to review that two minutes of history can see the video where moderator Cliff Kelley asks Meeks about the qualifications for the chief of Chicago's public schools and the elected school board at the Labor Beat video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5O-htuPADg&feature=youtu.be

Reverend Senator James Meeks once said that the Chicago Teachers Union was worse than the city's drug gangs in his far South Side community. Substance photo from 2012 by David Vance.Meeks became infamous among union teachers and others in the schools when he said, in 2009, that the Chicago Teachers Union was a gang worse than the drug gangs that had plagued his community on the city's South Side.



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