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Biased media: Sun-Times and Teach for America Parents United for Responsible Education

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Biased media: Sun-Times and Teach for America

This advertisement (with a fold in the middle of the donors list so that it fit in my scanner) appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times over the weekend. You may not be able to read the small print at the bottom which says: “The Sun-Times is a media sponsor of Teach for America.”
What’s wrong with that?
Well, let’s start with the TFA claim in this (no doubt free) ad that the program “give(s) over 50,000 Chicago kids