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Raise Your Hand takes hundreds of hours a month to research issues, plan events, launch campaigns and conduct grassroots organizing around public education. With your support, we can advocate for a parent voice in public school policy and equitable and sustainable school funding. Your generous, tax-deductible contribution is needed to improve education for all children in Chicago and the state of Illinois.

 

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  • RT @kylehillman: Just awful having to sit on a #Chicago LSC and vote to approve a budget that cuts almost 500k. This is not an education we… — 1 hour 37 min ago
  • RT @MSGunderson: One of my favorite photos from #cpsWipes protest. Parent holding TP roll for each 100K cut from her school. http://t.co/aR… — 1 hour 51 min ago
  • RT @MoserMadness: @ILRaiseYourHand #cpsjeopardy rules demand that responses to budget questions are stated in the form of TPE, Toilet Paper… — 2 hours 14 min ago
  • The big q: how much did scl closings + 13 new charters cost this year? — 2 hours 23 min ago
  • @RayNay111 less aides, not sure of # lost. Who knows. — 2 hours 32 min ago
  • @jillwohl I don't think they give him all the info. He was in springfield saying sq footage was part of space util formula. — 2 hours 35 min ago
  • @breezydayz @xianb8 @ChiPubSchools not anymore on wknds. No o/t for engineers. Right @jillwohl? — 2 hours 44 min ago
  • Parent at McNair also tells me they lost a bunch of sped positions. — 2 hours 58 min ago
  • Parent tells me her child is a flight-risk and not toilet trained and @ChiPubSchools cutting sped aides to scl. #cpsway — 2 hours 59 min ago
  • Another email: massive layoffs at Beard elem. Bigger class sizes for autism announced. Aides cut. #cpsway — 3 hours 4 min ago
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