Mike Klonsky reports from Chicago that Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and her slate of officers were re-elected by acclamation.
She is a much beloved figure in Chicago, and had she not suffered a major illness last year, she would very likely be Mayor Lewis today. She is far more popular than Rahm Emanuel.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Hated by the establishment, she is personification of how telling it like it is can get you places.
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She is a great union leader.
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I so wish we could find her twin in our district. We are so sadly out of touch with so many things she is willing to fight for.
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She’s one of my trinity of heroes: Diane Ravitch, Carol Burris, and Karen Lewis!
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