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Coverage of Longer Day on April 23rd NPR Morning Edition
Raise Your
Hand and members of the newly formed Chicago Parents for Quality Education were
featured on Morning Edition yesterday on NPR.
Check out the story here:
We have to cut 5 positions at Burley and we're still going to have little money for supplies. Full day is going to be pretty empty. —
2 hours 24 min ago
@jillwohl sorry, not following. Where are you? —
2 hours 30 min ago
Said their kids had everything here, didn't want anything extra, just what they had. http://t.co/oHeF51vI0C —
4 hours 16 min ago
Dad is out. Didn't get arrested. —
4 hours 18 min ago
Crowd yelling "shame on Rahm." —
4 hours 29 min ago
Said her husband will be arrested in ten mins and taken out another door by police. He said he will take arrest. Kid's educ worth it. —
4 hours 31 min ago