Showing posts with label Rahm Emanuel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rahm Emanuel. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Rahm Shortchanges Public Schools, Showers Charters With Cash

Rahm Shortchanges Public Schools, Showers Charters With Cash
"Matt Farmer on Huffington Post with a story that's a illustrative of the kinds of issues Chicago teachers are striking over: how Rahm Emanuel is siphoning off the money from public schools and giving it to the politically-connected, for-profit "reformers" -- while public schools have inadequate resources, overcrowded classrooms and leaky roofs. He's also willing to switch out the bulk of the Chicago public schools for a system that we already know isn't any better, because it benefits the political and financial agenda of his corporate cronies:"