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- One wonders just how far Mayor Rahm will go with his ISAT investigations.
For the past few days I’ve been talking to teachers from Drummond and Saucedo schools about the ongoing central-office ISATgate investigation.
For teachers, here’s the choice: if you want to save your hide, throw a colleague to the wolves. Looks like these investigators learned a trick or two from Senator Joe McCarthy.
Weingarten rights come from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that guarantees union employees the right to representation during interrogations—like the ongoing ISAT grillings.
He has a button that says “union thug,” and he likes to needle central-office big shots and principals with wisecracks and sarcastic comments. As far as I can tell, Mayor Emanuel’s staffers hate him, ’cause they think he’s mean and nasty.
But as long as CPS has the money to launch investigations, how about investigating something worth investigating? Like who was behind the infamous paid-protester scandal from a couple of years ago.
