Rahm Emanuel Slammed by Chicago High School Students
Chicago's mayoral race front-runner claims the city's highest performing schools are charters. A group of students says he didn't do his homework.
02.03.11
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Rahm Emanuel is in hot water over recent remarks dissing the city's public schools. According to the Chicago mayoral race front-runner, "When you take out North Side, and you take out Walter Payton, the seven best-performing high schools are all charters." Now a group of students—who also happen to be fans of one of his opponents, Miguel Del Valle—have responded to the inference that the city's 400,000 regular public school kids are low-performing. To protest, they did what thousands of young people do every day—they made a video and put it to YouTube.
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