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Downwinder

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3. From the OP:

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 12:54 AM

Sep 2012

"In one of the most outrageous examples, $5.2 million in TIF funds was given to the Hyatt Corporation to build a brand new hotel in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Meanwhile, $3.2 million was cut from the budgets for five schools in the neighborhood and 27 teachers were laid off.

The Pritzker family, one of the richest in the nation, owns Hyatt. Penny Pritzker sits on the Chicago Board of Education."

My addition:

Penny Pritzker's children got to the University of Chicago Lab School.

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Chicago teachers: �Assault on public education needs to end here� [View all] Starry Messenger Sep 2012 OP

The corporatization of the Public Schools should be opposed by every Democrat sabrina 1 Sep 2012 #1

Cosign. Starry Messenger Sep 2012 #2

From the OP: Downwinder Sep 2012 #3

Hyatt's a major union-buster too. Starry Messenger Sep 2012 #5

K&R Mnemosyne Sep 2012 #4