Chicago Teachers Union members traveled to Springfield Wednesday to lobby lawmakers at the state capital for more school funding.
Sarah SchulteChicago Teachers Union members traveled to Springfield Wednesday to lobby lawmakers at the state capital for more school funding before the legislative session ends next week.
"That brought funding into our schools, brought counselors, brought special education teachers, brought lower class sizes," Jankov said. "For the mayor and now his minions in the Chicago Teachers Union to come down here and bully lawmakers into more money claiming they are being shortchanged, is absolutely outrageous," said Republican State Senator Don DeWitte.
"It's hard to get $1 billion on top of revenue we are sending to CPS in one budget cycle," said Democratic State Rep. La Shawn Ford.
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