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Want to shout out fellow CPS educator @noraflanagan who every day for the past week has created threads on Brandon Johnson.
The 🧵’s are on policy, gender equity, education, arts, budget, treatment not trauma. We know Paul Vallas is terrible but truly realize #BrandonIsBetter
The 🧵’s are on policy, gender equity, education, arts, budget, treatment not trauma. We know Paul Vallas is terrible but truly realize #BrandonIsBetter
Paul Vallas helped launch a far-right campaign against COVID precautions, Black history, and LGBTQ inclusion in IL Schools, in order to privatize schools
PART 2: The Receipts🧵
(credit: @cholent_lover for helping with research)
PART 2: The Receipts🧵
(credit: @cholent_lover for helping with research)
PART 1 covered the background
I packed a lot in, but I wanted to set the table for how these far-right astroturf groups work and how close they are to Paul Vallas
I packed a lot in, but I wanted to set the table for how these far-right astroturf groups work and how close they are to Paul Vallas
Again, I want to recognize everyone who's been on this beat.
Some of you have been covering it for quite some time, so apologies if I missed anyone, or any details
@JinxPress @ILschoolwatch @il_fps @duboo @behindthissky @amyqin12 @PetrellaReports @rap30
Some of you have been covering it for quite some time, so apologies if I missed anyone, or any details
@JinxPress @ILschoolwatch @il_fps @duboo @behindthissky @amyqin12 @PetrellaReports @rap30
I read Paul Vallas's personal Facebook page so you don't have to! (A thread.)
His posts, dating back to 2019 (to be found at facebook.com/paul.vallas.750), are consistent with his well-documented appearances on right-wing talk radio. They are more proof that #BrandonIsBetter. (1/14)
His posts, dating back to 2019 (to be found at facebook.com/paul.vallas.750), are consistent with his well-documented appearances on right-wing talk radio. They are more proof that #BrandonIsBetter. (1/14)
The majority of Vallas's FB posts valorize the "thin blue line" of the brave police. He states that police violence does NOT disproportionately target Black men. Instead he trots out right-wing talking points about "Black-on-Black crime" and the "handcuffed" police force. (2/14)
Vallas skews the murder of George Floyd to insist that the police are equal victims. Then he rants about the "protestors/rioters" of May 2020 in Chicago, saying "In real time, we observed the cannibalistic side of society in a zero sum game." 3/14
Paul Vallas is nothing but a throwback to the Vrdolyak 29's racist resistance to Black governance under the great Harold Washington. From 1988:
lib.niu.edu/1988/ii880412.…
lib.niu.edu/1988/ii880412.…
Paul Vallas boasts of his 5 years as chief of the Philadelphia Public Schools. But a close look at his tenure there shows that when he hastily departed Philly, he left behind depleted finances, federal investigations, & failed, heavy-handed school safety policies. A thread: 1/14
In 2007, Vallas’s final year in Philadelphia, school district officials announced a surprise $191M deficit. The City Controller reported incompetent financial management, “stonewalling on requests for information,” and “questionable reimbursements.” inquirer.com/philly/opinion… 2/14
The Governor’s office found that under Vallas “the Philadelphia School District overspent its budget in each of the last 4 years & failed to use sound financial management controls that would have signaled trouble earlier,” leading to the huge deficit inquirer.com/philly/news/br… 3/14
