Rahm Emanuel Shut Down by Teacher Activist
This was passed along to me, so I figured I would share here. Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama chief of staff, and current Mayor of Chicago, has done everything in his power to destroy public education in Chicago. On Monday night, at a public hearing on the city’s 2016 budget, Emanuel made a rare public appearance. While he worked the crowd, shaking hands, he was promptly shut down by Isaac Krantz-Perlman, a special education classroom assistant in Chicago. Check out the gif below…
Micah Uetricht of In These Times has a full write up of the story here.
To read more about the hunger strike in Chicago, organized to save Dyett High School, check out Michelle Gunderson’s piece on Living in Dialogue.