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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. St. Valentine’s Day edition. « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. St. Valentine’s Day edition. « Fred Klonsky:

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. St. Valentine’s Day edition.

Charter school students protest what Rahm calls “special sauce” fines. Photo: PURE.

Noble Street Charter schools are Rahm Emanuel’s favorites. He includes them on his lists of Chicago’s best schools, while always leaving high performing public schools off his list.

But now it has come to light that a revenue source for Rahm’s favorite charter schools are punitive fines for violating school rules.

PURE reports:

Noble’s discipline system charges students $5 for minor behavior such as