About 2,100 CPS staffers were pink-slipped Friday for budgetary reasons on top of another 855 laid off in June after the district permanently shuttered 48 schools. Teachers and parents came out by the hundreds Wednesday to protest those layoffs and school cuts. “Rahm, Rahm, we’re no fools, we won’t let you steal our schools!” teachers chanted outside the CPS headquarters in the Loop Wednesday morning. “Hey hey, ho ho, Rahm Emanuel’s got to go!” went another chant among the hundreds of protesters.Shrinkage of the Blue America coalition. Chicago has high property taxes and high sales taxes but no money left in a reserve fund for schools.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Teachers Against Rahm: ' Hey hey, ho ho, Rahm Emanuel’s got to go!
The Chicago Sun-Times reports on public school teachers demonstrating against Rahm: