Marilyn Stewart did not attend the February 27, 2008, meeting of the Chicago Board of Education, and by that time she had ordered the union's vice president Ted Dallas not to represent the union at any functions with the Chicago Board of Education. On February 27, it was clear that the Board was going to vote to "reconstitute" six Chicago schools (although CPS was calling the process "turnaround" — a corporate term. CTU Recording Secretary Mary McGuire (above) did not even criticize the Board's cynical approach to the hearings that had been held during the previous three weeks. Instead, she simply asked the Board to postpone the vote for three months, and when Board President Rufus Williams said "No" to her request, McGuire's response was "Thank You." Between Stewart's absence and McGuire's acceptance of the Board's actions, hundreds of teachers and other union members were fated to lose their jobs at the end of the 2007-2008 school year. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.
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