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Friday, June 7, 2013

UPDATE:Tribune is an apologist for UNO corruption. | Fred Klonsky

Tribune is an apologist for UNO corruption. | Fred Klonsky:


The in box. “I don’t have a lot of confidence in CPS’s ability to take care of the living children that are being affected by these closures and I don’t have much more confidence that they can take care of the historical artifacts either frankly.”

These (other WPA murals) are at Kohn, Wentworth, Lafayette, and West Pullman as well. And maybe Stewart too? There are WPA ones at Kohn, Wentworth, and West Pullman–they are federal property, and CPS either needs to display them or give them back to the federal gov’t.
CPS asked for Heather Becker for a bid, but when she outlined in detail what she’d need to do to even to put together a bid, they said they already had picked a firm—Parma.
Super dodgy frankly.
These have all gotten a stay of execution until the end of the school year, but someone needs to be keeping very close tabs. I said this on the news today, and firmly believe it:

Ten minute drawing. Rahm owns it.

Rahm owns it

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“I am encouraged to see so many parents from closing schools already choosing to early enroll their children in their new school,” schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett said in the release. Not.

Have 78% of students from CPS schools that have been shuttered really enroll in their assigned receiving school?
That’s what CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said.
That is what Liar-in-Chief, CPS press flack Becky Carroll.
However, Byrd-Bennett warned us the other day that we need to suspend our disbelief.
Forgive me if I don’t.
And the 78% number.
CPS goes by the motto, “If you don’t do what you say you were going to do, say you did it anyway.”
Chicago Tribune:
A principal at a South Side school that is being closed, who asked not to be identified, said staff enrolled about a quarter of their students at the CPS-designated receiving school after being unable to reach their parents through notes and phone calls.

Tribune is an apologist for UNO corruption.

PopoutJuan Rangel asks the Trib editorial board for forgiveness and gets it.
In a June 6th editorial, the Chicago Tribune editorial board came up with an amazing whitewash of the corruption at UNO and their charter operation.
Following a one hour sit-down with UNO Boss Juan Rangel and new UNO Chairman Matin Cabrera, head of Cabrera Capital, the Tribune gave their stamp of approval to putting the scandal behind us.
“We’re not going to join the calls for Rangel to resign. He has been a positive force in the rapid growth of UNO 


Watch as ABC’s Chuck Goudie chases House Sneaker Mike Madigan.

The inept Governor Squeezy wanted a sit-down with Senate President John Cullerton and House Sneaker Mike Madigan after the failure of the General Assembly to come to an agreement as to how much state employees should suffer because of the General Assembly’s failure to meet pension payments for 60 years.
But the Sneaker didn’t want to talk to Cullerton and the Governor
There are at least two theories about the Sneaker.
The first theory is that he didn’t want a deal because he wants to get his daughter, Attorney General Lisa

Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst honors author of “don’t say gay” bill. Marceau Neergaard wants her to take it back.

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