Welch predicts House passage of bill creating 21-member elected school board in Chicago – Chicago Sun-Times*

The speaker dismissed as unfounded Lightfoot’s fears of an elected school board dominated by her political adversaries in the Chicago Teachers Union. Rather, he argued, the CTU “should be concerned with who else may dominate” school board elections. "You have charter schools that are very well-funded…You have business groups that may want to chime in. I’m a product of an elected school board. I know all of the interest groups that get involved in elected school board races. Teachers unions don’t always prevail."