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Mayor Rahm's bananas about the longer school day
If you recall, I valiantly tried to save Mayor Emanuel from the mess he got himself into when he unilaterally declared that, from here on out, the public school children of Chicago would have to wear their underwear on the outside of their clothes.
Whoops?wrong decree.…
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