if one kid gets hurt, the mayor has blood on his hands? my responsibility starts when doors to the future of a child are closed. 56% of african-american male adolescents are dropping out. and i am accountable as every parent, every teacher, every principal is to turning that number around. mayor, can i ask one question? we won t let you close our schools! there s going to be a lot of death on his hands if these schools close. the truth is, going to school in certain parts of chicago is risky enough. and in roseland, a tough neighborhood on the far south side where president obama was a community organizer, warring gang factions remain a constant threat to student safety. how is it going, commander? what time in the morning was this? at the school? who are the students? and the boys don t know what it s related to? okay. i have good relationships with all those kids.
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nobody likes to do it, which is why people haven t done it in the past. i am not an education reformer. i believe in educational excellence and i will adopt any reform that gets me there. shame on the mayor! no school closings! with 54 public schools on the chopping block, it s the largest school consolidation in u.s. history. don t let these people take your schools. for mayor emanuel, the guy who helped president obama save the auto industry, bail out the banks and reform health care, chicago s public school crisis is right in his wheel house. you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. what i mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. the mayor is taking a risk with his bold school plan. while it might make sense because of the budget crisis and declining enrollment, many parents fear it puts their kids at risk, because they ll have to walk across dangerous gang lines
and the boys don t know what it s related to? i have good relationships with all those kids. i m going to talk to them. somebody was shooting at the kids on the way to school this morning. fender high school principal liz dozier is on a mission, to give her kids a shot at a better future. this is why i hate the warm weather. it begins to slowly heat up. but there s a larger ongoing gang complex within the community, and like the school, we sit like in the middle of this. an important part of the principal s job is to keep tabs on gang conflicts and make sure her students are safe at school. i am looking for shelton. do you have a 20 on shelton woolridge? you don t know what happened? no. how many shots were fired? like three. and you don t know what direction they were shooting in? no. have you heard of any conflicts in the neighborhood? no. i m not from around here. i don t know what be going on.
to all our schools. we have the capacity for 500,000. certain schools that were 200 kids when they were able to handle 600. the school system faces a $1 billion budget gap. the mayor s hand-hpicked school board is working on that. very difficult decision. nobody likes to do it, which is why people hadn t done it in the past. i am not an education reformer. i believe in educational excellence, and i will adopt any reform that gets me there. shame on the mayor! no school closings! the 64 schools on the chopping block is the largest consolidation in u.s. history. don t let these people take your schools! our school! our school! for mayor emanuel, the guy who helped president obama save the auto industry, bail out the banks and reform health care,