Now he’s settling on a new strategy—charter schools!
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If that doesn’t eventually knock Prosser out of business, I guess he can always call in the building inspectors.
The Noble charter needs a zoning change from the Chicago Plan Commission, a board of mayoral appointees whose usual response to mayoral proposals is: “great idea, boss!”
Other than that—I love you, baby!
The mayor says it’s all about applying free-market principals to public education. As if any markets are free anywhere in Chicago—a town whose capitalists from United Airlines to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange line up to feed from the TIF trough.
Plus, this is hardly a fair fight between free market equals. Prosser’s one of the regular public schools—with a unionized teaching staff—getting hammered by the mayor’s budget cuts.