Rahm Emanuel

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3,780 appearances 13 recordings 11 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Tiger Sisters · The Real Rules of Power in America (How to Use Them) with Rahm Emanuel · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

We end up with the first teacher strike in 30 years over two things, education that I wanted.

One, the full school day.

I got the kids an hour and 15 minutes and two additional weeks every year for their entire education.

An hour and 15 minutes more, so the kids got seven plus hours of classroom time, plus two more weeks.

And I got kindergarten to be universal across the city.

So 40,000 more kids were getting full day versus kids basically only on the north side.

Not only lost it, I made the rest of my first term miserable.

A miserable living hell.

I get reelected.

My first phone call is- Despite yourself.

Despite everything I did to try to stop it.

I call, the first call I make is that night.

I can tell you exactly the room in the Plumbers Hall.

I call Karen Lewis, the president of the teachers union.

I said, Karen, you and I can keep doing this for four more years.

You're my first phone call on my reelect.

uh i'm gonna uh i'd like to hit the reset button to two of us i owe you that i owe the people of the city of chicago if you would like to i'm ready so my hands extended fast forward when the con the first the contract i negotiate

comes up the first year of my second term, they work a year without a contract because Karen and I had built trust and respect.

And it was over our attempts, hers and mine, to try to stabilize the teacher's pension, et cetera.

But I made, and I've said this publicly, so it's not the first time, but that mistake colored the entire first term, and it's on me.

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