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Fuzzy Math: The CPS Budget Crisis
As citywide opposition to Mayor Emanuel’s massive school closing program comes into sharper focus every day, the rationale for the plan gets fuzzier and fuzzier. Take the question of money. When CPS chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett accepted her utilization commission’s call for taking high school closings off the table, the potential savings from school closings was [...]
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Mayor’s Infrastructure Trust Ordinance Raises Concerns Over Transparency, Accountability
On Monday, April 16 community groups urged their aldermen to vote “no” on the mayor’s Infrastructure Trust Ordinance, an ordinance that if passed will give corporate investors the opportunity to finance future development projects in the city of Chicago. Early in March, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the Chicago Infrastructure Trust as “an innovative way to [...]
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