Philadelphia may soon join Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles in electing a left-wing mayor. It would also put Eric Adams on notice.
on an ambitious rent control proposal. And Johnson, after finishing ahead of the incumbent mayor, Lori Lightfoot, edged out Paul Vallas, a former schools chief and tough-on-crime moderate.has a crucial link
to Johnson through Vallas, who, in addition to running the Chicago schools system, spent a half decade as the executive in charge of Philadelphia’s public schools. Johnson found success in savaging Vallas’s record as a schools chief, which came with notable triumphs and headline-grabbing controversies that never quite faded.
A decade before she was elected to the city council, Gym was tangling with Vallas as the leader of Parents United for Public Education, an organization she founded to fight for more public school funding. As Vallas allowed the takeover of some public schools by for-profit companies and private nonprofits — and enacted a
for problematic students — he found himself pitted against Gym, a former teacher and newspaper reporter.
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