This September, Pennsylvania's teacher's union will have
a new leader. And she won't be a former teacher.
Dolores McCracken took an unusual route to the
top of the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA),
and her story begins in Philadelphia.
The Mayfair native attended Catholic school--on her
grandmother's orders, she said — and after graduating took some classes at
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences (now Thomas Jefferson University).
After high school, McCracken worked as to the chief of
the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's office and later as a paralegal.
McCracken put her career on hold after having kids,
assuming she'd at some point re-enter the legal profession.
While she was waiting, McCracken became president of the
Home and School Association at Churchville Elementary School in lower Bucks
County, where her kids were enrolled.
For more details on her ascent from a teacher's assistant
to her current role, go to Newsworks.org.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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