who cares about preserving a system that ensures that all children have an equal opportunity to get an education. There are problems that need to be fixed, especially in the poorer areas. But that can't happen if the funds that should be going to those schools go into the hands of Private Corporations who will dip into those funds for profit, meaning those profits are taking money away from the Public Schools for which they were intended.

This privatization of Public Schools a long held dream of the Right, has speeded up at an alarming rate over the past decade. So they are right, something needs to happen to slow it down before it's too late.

Otherwise we're staring into a future with little kids wearing uniforms with corporate logos, substandard education, and $500 billion a year getting diverted from education to our already disgusting private sector.

"In one of the most outrageous examples, $5.2 million in TIF funds was given to the Hyatt Corporation to build a brand new hotel in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Meanwhile, $3.2 million was cut from the budgets for five schools in the neighborhood and 27 teachers were laid off.

The Pritzker family, one of the richest in the nation, owns Hyatt. Penny Pritzker sits on the Chicago Board of Education."

My addition:

Penny Pritzker's children got to the University of Chicago Lab School.

I just got online after a few days without a modem, so I'm just catching up to the Penny Pritzker piece of this, thanks Downwinder.