VIDEO: Emanuel outlines his $7.2 billion “Building a New Chicago” program

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6. Change of Subject: Perhaps a clue why Emanuel didn’t care about Brizard’s slippery graduation statistics At Huffington Post, Chicago parent-advocate Julie Woestehoff blogs , in February, a group of Chicago Public Schools high-schoolers busted Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel‘s chops in a YouTube video (below) for making false statements about charter schools on the campaign trail:[claimed that, outside of two selective enrollment CPS high schools, the seven top-performing high schools were [...]...