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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Nader Issa

Head of the class: 33-year-old new Ed Board president praised for ‘thoughtful, insightful’ leadership

Jianan Shi is Chicago’s new Board of Education president. His fast rise from teacher to organizer to overseeing the city’s public schools leaves him as the progressive movement’s hope for educational reform. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

A usually engaged student in Jianan Shi’s 11th-grade science class had started struggling. The kid fell behind academically. He started sleeping in class. Like most teachers, Shi got on the student’s case.

“I ended up pulling him aside,” he said. It turned out “he’s working third shift.”

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