The Progressive Takeover of Big Cities Is Nearly Complete

Philadelphia may soon join Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles in electing a left-wing mayor. This would 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 Chicago Public Schools CEO and tough-on-crime moderate.to Johnson through Vallas, who, in addition to running the Chicago schools, spent a half-decade as the executive in charge of Philadelphia’s public schools.

A decade before Gym was elected to the City Council, she was tangling with Vallas while she was leader of Parents United for Public Education, an organization she’d 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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