High-school vote heavy for Lynch-Walsh

High-school vote heavy for Lynch-Walsh

Deborah Lynch-Walsh won an overwhelming majority of high school teachers and more than half of elementary school teachers in her victory last month over Tom Reece, president of the Chicago Teachers Union.

A CATALYST analysis of school-by-school vote totals shows that Lynch-Walsh won a whopping 72 percent of the high school vote and 53 percent of the elementary school vote. Overall, she got 57 percent of all votes cast in the election.

Traditionally, high school teachers have shown more militance, which grew as the School Board swept into a number of low-performing schools with its reconstitution and intervention programs. …