Comment: “Mayor Lightfoot should endorse a community-led process to reach 100% clean energy by 2040,” says the executive director of the Illinois Environmental Council. No mention of cost, for a city that’s beyond broke.

Both CTU and AFT, along with the largest teachers union in the country, the National Education Association (NEA) have been major supporters of the #RedforEd movement, which launched in Arizona in March 2108 with the organizational assistance of a former CTU member and has subsequently spread throughout most states in the country.