By February 25, 2008, members of the Chicago Teachers Union were only beginning to realize that the "Fresh Start" program promoted by the leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union was a plan to make the union a junior partner with the Chicago Board of Education in the firing of tenured teachers. At a February 25, 2008, press conference at CTU headquarters, Marilyn Stewart excluded two of the union's five officers (Vice President Ted Dallas and Treasurer Linda Porter), while featuring Financial Secretary Mark Ochoa (above, center) and Recording Secretary Mary McGuire (above, right) prominently for the TV cameras. McGuire is smiling (above) while retired Toledo Federation of Teachers President Dal Lawrence (above, left, at podium) tells reporters that as a union leader he (Lawrence) had helped fire more teachers than any schools superintendent in the state of Ohio. Lawrence proudly helped CTU President Marilyn Stewart promote the corporate-funded "Fresh Start" program against the members of the Chicago Teachers Union. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.
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