February 27, 2008. While CTU officers, including Ted Dallas, were being warned that they would be disciplined for being “insubordinate” if they opposed the reconstitutions of Harper and Orr high schools (and Copernicus, Fulton, Howe, and Morton elementary schools), students, teachers, parents, and community organizers were mobilizing against the attacks on their schools. Above, militant protesters opposing the reconstitution of Orr spoke forcefully both outside 125 S. Clark St. and at the Board meeting on February 27, finally prompting Rufus Williams to order CPS security to remove some of them from the Board chambers. Meanwhile, Marilyn Stewart (see memo below) was warning the union’s officers — in a fashion like Karl Rove in the Bush White House — the stay away from the protests so the union could create a unified message and avoid “different messages given by various individuals at various times...” (see Stewart’s February 1 memo to the officers, below. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.
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