# Looks like Chicago will get a new mayor **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 1, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-chicago-will-get-a-new-mayor/980524 "2023-03-01T03:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-chicago-will-get-a-new-mayor/980524/61 "2023-04-06T19:55:19Z")
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-chicago-will-get-a-new-mayor/980524/62 "2023-12-16T05:27:28Z")
> Chicago Public Schools leadership and the [Chicago Teachers Union](https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/strategic-plan-statement/) are making yet another play to [eliminate school choice](https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2023/12/12/chicago-public-schools-moves-away-from-school-choice/) for Chicago parents by eliminating selective enrollment schools, including 11 selective enrollment high schools. > > Members on the Chicago Board of Education, [**appointed**](https://www.cpsboe.org/about/bios) **by former-CTU organizer Mayor Brandon Johnson** , [approved](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-public-schools-board-of-ed-passes-plan-that-could-impact-selective-enrollment/3303699/) a [resolution](https://www.cpsboe.org/content/documents/december_14_2023_public_agenda_to_post.pdf) which would transition CPS away from “privatization and admissions/enrollment policies” that allow students options to enroll in public selective enrollment schools, among others. > **[Chicago Teachers Union kills excelling schools to force students into...](https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-kills-excelling-schools-to-force-students-into-dysfunction/)** > > The Chicago Board of Education approved a resolution on Dec. 14 which will eliminate selective enrollment schools in the Chicago Public Schools district. It is yet another attempt by the Chicago Teachers Union and its allies to limit parents’ choices... > **[Chicago Mayor announces plans to ax selective-enrollment high schools](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12864439/Chicago-Mayor-Brandon-Johnson-selective-enrollment-high-schools.html)** > > Mayor Brandon Johnson's Board of Education has proposed shifting back toward neighborhood schools - away from the system where kids compete for selective programs. I expect the middle class parents whose kids attend these selective schools will move to the suburbs–while the lower class kids are out of luck. Note the mayor promised to support these selective schools in the campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-chicago-will-get-a-new-mayor/980524/63 "2023-12-17T05:23:18Z")
His 28% approval rating makes it seem he may very well be a one-termer. It took both Lightfoot and Emmanuel a few years to get below 30% approval. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-chicago-will-get-a-new-mayor/980524/64 "2023-12-17T12:59:41Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Note the mayor promised to support these selective schools in the campaign. So says the Daily Mail. Do you have a link for that? I read this very long campaign educational plan and it does not seem consistent with selective schools: [Making Every School a Sustainable Community School](https://www.brandonforchicago.com/issues/education) I see stuff like this: > [@](#): > > He will invest in fully funded ethnic studies, bilingual education and dual language programs where students learn native histories and cultures. The specialized schools I see tooted do just about everything except prepare students to enter selective four your colleges: > [@](#): > > Brandon Johnson will expand the Sustainable Community Schools model to the City Colleges of Chicago, and connect it to a vision of healthy, green and anti-racist curricula beyond K-12. Imagine a partnership with City Colleges, where a student receives academic programming in the morning during their junior or senior year of high school. They then commute (for free, on the CTA) in the afternoon to a trades center like the Arturo Velasquez Institute at Daley College to learn welding. . . . > > Brandon Johnson will build a career and technical (CTE) corridor where schools like Fenger, Chicago Vocational, Phillips, Tilden and Dunbar offer specialized programming for building our green economy, aviation, electric vehicles, solar installation, plumbing, construction, cosmetology and more professional education that will **empower our Black and Latine students to become the next generation of unionized trade workers**. Maybe I am missing some inconsistent statement he made during the campaign. But it seems like he is following the heart of his educational platform. No way I would have voted for him, but parents dreaming that their child will go to the University of Illinois or University of Chicago couldn’t possibly have thought Johnson was their guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-chicago-will-get-a-new-mayor/980524.md?page=3)