So what happened in HD 16? For starters, former leader Lang’s second choice for the district made no friends. Her colleagues were annoyed, advocates couldn’t work with her, and she made the unthinkable decision to hire someone who is accused of downplaying the rape of girls. One only has to look at the fact that the least liked person in the GA, Rep. Morrison, had a better session this year to see she wasn’t effective. She had Drury vibes. However, she was an incumbent in a district that was tired of turnover. She should have won last night.

So the Chicago Board of Education, when given an opportunity to remove trauma inducing SROs from their schools - instead punted. It wasn’t unexpected, just disappointing after expirencing the work Chicago youth did. The largest media coverage was around their marches, protests outside @chicagosmayor and even the BOE Chair’s home. However, the youth did some amazing work lobbying behind the scenes as well.

If you missed this press conference, I encourage you to find it on the internet...it was something. Let’s discuss. I think it is safe to say that @SharkeyCTU1 isn’t going to get invited to @chicagosmayor house anytime soon for her preferred craft beer. And honestly, you kind of expect a level of dislike and exhaustion in both individuals at this point.

If you were to tell me a year ago, I would be congratulating a billionaire Governor on his successes and protesting the mayor who replaced Rahm - I would have thought you were crazy. Yet here we are. The difference? One set out to show his campaign promises were commitments the other set out to show hers were mere suggestions.

When @politico_il gets it wrong - you have to hand it to them - they get it REALLY wrong. Unfortunately not fact checking the talking points from the Mayor’s office misleads the public too. (Sigh) let’s dive in: #Twill For starters, no @politico_il CPS has not agreed to yet another 200 social workers as your post implies.

Why mislead the public @chicagosmayor ? Especially when there are receipts. #Twill #Thread @CTULocal1 #CTU See, the number they are using to mislead parents is wrong - blatantly wrong. It comes from a grant request. To come to that number the agency took every student and social worker in schools. Except there is one huge problem with that strategy...

And let’s talk about this talking point from @chicagosmayor ‘s contract negotiator, because I keep seeing this come up. #Twill Fact: there is a social worker with a PEL shortage. If you tried to hire all 800 more social workers this year it couldn’t be done...but that isn’t what is being proposed. Not even remotely.

A couple of thoughts from today’s DCFS hearing: In the short term at least, the MCO shift is looking like a total disaster. They don’t have the network, there are going to be a lot of kids losing care, and they don’t even know where some of these former kids are.

Your must read today: Cook County’s Bail Debate — What You Need To Know —- (thread) wbez.org/shows/wbez-new… via @WBEZ #Twill No seriously read it before posting your hot take on why our mayor is right to parrot Rahm’s crime deflection.

I am a big fan of @politico_il, I read it just about every day, and you should too...but we should unpack today's lead story. #Twill In it Politico reported the letter President @ToniPreckwinkle sent to @chicagosmayor objecting to the rhetoric being pushed by CPD and the Mayor's Superintendent Johnson.