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Rahm continues to lie about charter schools

I’m beginning to think that our Mayor, the child of a family of geniuses, may not be the sharpest knife in the Emanuel’s kitchen drawer.

Case in point. Despite having been schooled by a group of high school students after making wildly inaccurate statements during the mayoral campaign about how great charter schools are vs traditional CPS high schools, and despite having the Sun-Times run a sidebar headlined “Emanuel’s charter stats don’t add up,” the Mayor continues to “misstate” the truth about charters.

Yesterday, City Hall issued an announcement about a new deal between Chicago and the Gates Foundation to