| One thousand Chicago Public School teachers and their supporters packed Daley Plaza in 40-degree temperatures on Wednesday for a rally protesting the city's announced plans to close 54 kindergarten-through-eighth-grade schools next year. The bombshell: the all-at-once announcement of the fifty-four schools to be shuttered. Even the aldermen who'd be responsible for managing the fallout in their wards weren't informed in advance. And the announcement was made not by the mayor but current school CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett; Rahm, that brave, brave man, had scheduled the most important announcements of his term on a day when he was off on a Utah ski vacation with his family. |
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