With Mayor Rahm and Governor Rauner both swinging wrecking balls, it’s hard to keep track of who’s done what damage to Chicago’s public schools over the past few days and weeks . . . and months and years. So much damage has already been done.
Got you with that one—didn’t I?
Without of course mentioning that his private equity firm made millions managing teachers’ pension funds.
Emanuel doesn’t deny that he said it. Probably because he knows no one would believe him if he did.
That’s Rauner, of course. He proposed a law in January to allow CPS to go bankrupt. Last week, right around the time Emanuel was looking to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to pay operational costs, Rauner suggested that he appoint someone to oversee the schools now. Thus, Rauner undermined the creditworthiness of Chicago and forced Emanuel to pay more in interest. That means more money for bankers and less money for the classroom.
Who paid homeless people to show up at hearings in an attempt to make it seem like poor black people wanted schools in their communities to be closed?
