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Hinz: Proposed Building Selloff - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Hinz: Proposed Building Selloff - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Hinz: Proposed Building Selloff

Crain's Greg Hinz has a column about "a proposal by financier Bruce Rauner [education chair at the Civic Committee] to raise $800 million from investors and bank borrowing, and then use the money to buy surplus buildings from Chicago Pubic Schools and perhaps parochial school operators." Seems like a crazy, unlikely deal to me, but money talks and these are desperate times. What do you think? Try not to write something predictable or naive. Does this