Jackson Potter, Author at A Just Chicago

Jackson Potter is a Chicago Public Schools graduate. As a high school activist in 1995 he led a walk-out at Whitney Young HS to push for equitable school funding. He taught and served as Chicago Teachers Union delegate at Englewood HS until Arne Duncan “phased out” the school. Jackson currently serves the CTU as its staff coordinator.

When Hurricane Katrina Hit Chicago

Jackson Potter September 24, 2015 September 24, 2015Justice, Schools

Since mayoral control of Chicago’s public schools began in 1995, Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have unleashed a tsunami of charter schools and school closings upon the city with devastating results.