Chicago cancels ‘Obama High School’ to pay for raises, pensions

[rangerrebew]

Chicago cancels ‘Obama High School’ to pay for raises, pensions
October 11, 2016
By Victor Skinner
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CHICAGO – Chicago Public Schools was forced to shelve a proposed Barack Obama Preparatory High School aimed at honoring the 44th president after a new contract with the Chicago Teachers Union depleted needed funds.

About $60 million in tax increment financing money slated for the controversial school was diverted to help pay for raises and other perks included in a new teachers contract with the Chicago Teachers Union reached hours before a planned teachers strike Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reports.obamabummed1

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced grandiose plans for the school in 2014 to honor his political benefactor in Obama’s hometown, but it has faced criticism since because Emanuel wants to place the selective enrollment school in the affluent Near North Side, rather than on the South Side where Obama worked as a community organizer.

http://eagnews.org/chicago-obama-high-school-axed-by-rahm-emanuel-teachers-union/

[mountaineer]

That seems fair. Obama is doing to this nation what the union has done to the Chicago schools' finances.

[dfwgator]

There's going to be tremendous pressure to name everything after Obama once he's out of office.  I'm sure they'll even start pushing to put his face on Mt. Rushmore.

[SZonian]

My give a damn meter isn't budging...schadenfreude.

[Oceander]

That seems fair. Obama is doing to this nation what the union has done to the Chicago schools' finances.

[Applewood]

There's going to be tremendous pressure to name everything after Obama once he's out of office.  I'm sure they'll even start pushing to put his face on Mt. Rushmore.

Already started with the schools.  One of our existing high schools was renamed for him.  It has a 40% graduation rate.

[Fishrrman]

Even obama can't compete with the Chicago teachers' union...