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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's happening with Rahm's year-round school plan?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's happening with Rahm's year-round school plan?

What's happening with Rahm's year-round school plan?

Jennifer Johnson, a teacher at Lincoln Park High School, administered final exams in a classroom where temperatures reached the mid-nineties on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times
Hey Mr. Mayor. What happened to all that talk about year-round schooling? Remember, during the campaign. You were saying how students in Houston were getting 3 more years of classroom seat time than kids in Chicago. Well this week in Chicago (don't know about Houston) the temperature in those old buildings with no