Schools CEO Colonel Sanders better tread lightly. There’s a new union chief in town.
David Quolke is preparing for battle. The newly elected Cleveland Teacher’s Union president plans to hit the district with a blunt forearm of diplomacy. After his April 25 swearing in, he’s promising the first one-hundred hours will be productive. We assume he’s talking Rooseveltian rather than Pelosian.
“I’ve got a whole series of papers and legislative issues that piece together the first 100 hours,” says Quolke. “We’re going to be visible and really pull our weight.” …
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2008.