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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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  • We salute BV and LL at @WBEZeducation for doing the piece on @ChiPubSchools banning the media. Others said they wished they cld write abt it — 8 hours 13 min ago
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  • RT @RHYMEFEST: @MistaFuture the reasons for the closings kept changing as the mayor was proven wrong in the argument he gave — 11 hours 52 min ago
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