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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                     CONTACT:    Stephanie GadlinFebruary 10, 2014                                                                                                                   Desk:   (312) 329-6250 THE GREAT CHICAGO PENSION CAPER IS UNDERWAYChicago’s public school educators will not negotiate ‘at the point of a gun’  CHICAG

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DE BLASIO LEADING THE WAY ON INCOME GAP AND SCHOOL INEQUALITY

Mayor de Blasio delivers his first State of the City Address. Offers "a future of greater equality and opportunity,” 

N.Y. Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't folding his post-election cards as many predicted, despite stiff opposition from Gov. Cuomo's gang up in Albany and even some attacks from some lefties on his plan for universal pre-K.

AP reports:

By virtue of a campaign focused on income disparity, de Blasio has become a leading spokesman in the global movement to address fiscal inequality but in order to enact some of his signature ideas, he must first get approval in a city 150 miles to the north. Albany lawmakers must sign off on de Blasio's hopes to raise the minimum wage for city residents and for the centerpiece of his agenda: a tax hike on the rich to fund universal pre-kindergarten.

B-BYE... New York's charter hustlers are borrowing a page from from their corporate uncles by threatening to leave town if BdB goes through with his plans to make parasitic privately-run charters pay rent in public school buildings and enforce tighter restrictions on how they