The head of the Chicago Teachers Union is facing backlash for sending her eldest child to a private high school, a decision she says represents a stark statement about disinvestment in public schools and drives home why the fight to fully fund neighborhood schools is so important.
An online news site run by a former CTU employee that has been critical of the union leadership revealed on Saturday that CTU President Stacy Davis Gates is sending her freshman son to a Catholic school on the South Side. National and local right-wing and pro-school choice groups have picked up the story.
A main criticism is that Davis Gates and the CTU strongly oppose school choice.
