Crain's Chicago Business

Opinion: Transparency isn’t a political attack — it’s a public obligation

February 20, 2026

Sara Albrecht | February 20, 2026

(Crain’s Chicago Business)

Chicago Teachers Union leaders would like the public to believe that recent federal scrutiny of their finances is part of a right-wing conspiracy — an attack on educators, students, and social justice itself. That framing may be effective rally rhetoric. It is also deeply misleading.

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