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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm funnels millions more away from public to charter school operators

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm funnels millions more away from public to charter school operators:

Rahm funnels millions more away from public to charter school operators

Autocrat Rahm is determined to teach Chicago teachers and their union a lesson. Dropping the F-bomb on CTU president Karen Lewis obviously wasn't satisfying enough for Emanuel. So now he's figured out a way to funnel $2.7 million in badly needed school funds to the operators of 36 privately managed charter schools in exchange for them jumping on his politically-driven longer-school-day band wagon. As for the public schools -- let them eat cake.

Charter operators can each spend the $75,000 bribe from Rahm