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[the-ambi]

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[cpsparent-blog]

"THIS is going to be a hot, buttery mess."

So said Karen Lewis, the fiery president of the Chicago Teachers Union, when Mayor Rahm Emanuel named a new chief executive of the city's sprawling school system, the third largest in the nation.

[cpsparent-blog]

Great editorial on the strike.

[inappropriatekarenlewis-blog]

At her Seattle speech last fall, Lewis mocked Education Secretary, and former Chicago Public Schools chief, Arne Duncan, imitating his 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.”) Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/09/11/meet-karen-lewis-the-union-leader-at-the-center-of-the-chicago-teachers-strike/#ixzz26GbVrpPg

[inappropriatekarenlewis-blog]

“People are impressed,” Lewis said in a speech last fall at a teachers union conference in Seattle. “Let me tell you, I spent those [college] years, smoking lots of weed, self-medicating.”

“I’m sorry, there are kids here,” she added as some audience members chuckled, “I wasn’t supposed to say that, right? Too late.”

Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/09/11/meet-karen-lewis-the-union-leader-at-the-center-of-the-chicago-teachers-strike/#ixzz26Gar3m1N

[inappropriatekarenlewis-blog]

"I've got to go back to the silly part of my day. . .Y'all continue to have fun."

Karen Lewis

[inappropriatekarenlewis-blog]

“To say that the contract will be settled today is lunacy,”

Karen Lewis