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The [Tuesday] Papers"More than 350,000 Chicago Public Schools students prepared to return to class Tuesday for the start of a new school year that already is riddled with fiscal instability," the Sun-Times reports. And at Kelvyn Park High School, which is slated to lose an additional $2.2 million from its budget, students and teachers wondered how they're supposed to succeed with ever-shrinking resources. That's what kids at Robeson High School in Englewood told me two years ago: It just didn't feel like high school. It felt like something less. Much, much less. And that was because budget cuts - and falling enrollment - had essentially eviscerated the school. Kelvyn Park lost 19 staff positions, including the school's clinical social worker who led a weekly support group for girls who survived sexual assault and abuse, and students, and teachers who coached sports teams and sponsored the National Honor Society, and the lone college counselor who also started a legal clinic to help the school's immigrant families. Saint Forrest Sets Example "Claypool wouldn't come to the phone, and his chief of staff, Doug Kucia, hung up on us when we asked him about all this." Just . . . wow. Doug Kucia, you are Today's Worst Person In Chicago. Charter Barter
* And then check out this series of tweets from Raise Your Hand to gain a better understanding of how we got here and where Rahm intends to keep going:
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- Garbage Mayor "That reduction will not shrink the city's yawning deficit - which Emanuel plans to help close with a property tax increase of between $450 million and $550 million - because the Department of Streets and Sanitation 'will redirect the savings into other city services,' according to the mayor's office." 1. Why? Apparently unasked - and certainly unanswered. Smells like teen bullshit to me. * Two years ago, the Sun-Times notes, city inspector general Joe Ferguson said Emanuel was overstating the savings from moving garbage pick-up from a ward-by-ward system to a unified grid system by $42 million. * "The savings generated will free up resources for other vital services like tree-trimming and rodent control, the mayor's office said." Again, why not put the money toward deficit reduction? (By the way, how can we have a deficit when Rahm bragged during the last campaign that he had balanced four budgets in a row - as required by law? Answer: Depends on what you mean by "balanced.") I know we need trees trimmed and rodents controlled, but this sounds like a bit of shimmy and shake to me. * "The pledge to redirect the savings to city services should ease the fears of Chicago aldermen who are concerned that the decision to impose a garbage collection fee will ultimately pressure the city to reduce the size of city crews." Why? I don't get the connection. * "At the time [of Ferguson's report], Emanuel responded with a promise to do better. Now he's delivering - just in time to try to show Chicagoans that the fee they will soon be paying for garbage collection is being used more wisely." 1. He's delivering - two years later. Because we have to close the deficit. Then why not throw that $7 million into deficit reduction too? Rats and trees. Did the rodent control and tree-trimming budgets just get cut by $7 million? I'm telling you, something stinks here. Carter Country STEVE: Former President Jimmy Carter Says He Has Cancer - Just Like America's Spirit. Too soon? TIM: Not for me, but yeah, probably. "Carter announces there's a cancer on the post-presidency" - The Beachwood Radio Hour #67 Plus: Mac Sabbath, The Hamburglars, Neo's Last Dance, Hey Ya, and I Worked In Florida. Who Are The Real Troublemakers? The Cub Factor: Joltin' Joe The White Sox Report: Life After Death SportsTuesday: Good Job, Bears Fans Farmers Insurance Keeps Trying To Recruit Me The Weekend In Chicago Rock - BeachBook
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* Posted by The Beachwood Reporter on Sunday, September 6, 2015 - The Beachwood Tip Line: Ribbish. Posted on September 8, 2015 |
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