Very hard to hear a thing at that #chibudget2016 hearing. Someone I was talking to thinks it was on purpose so no protesting
Special Ed low incidence teachr- school lost 3 aides for 33 high needs students, DePaul gets $55mil #chibudget2016
Sarah Chambers and her students speaking on how important special education teachers were. Don't cut our special edu teachers #chibudget2016
Rachel Ray Thompson, former special Ed student- wen u let 21 yr olds not function, u show u don't care #chibudget2016
Teacher- millions lost schools, millions to sports stadiums. Give schools the $$- sports won't miss it #chibudget2016
Raymond Wohl- please stop wasting money. Parking lots at Malcolm X? Charter schools for $1? No #chibudget2016
Teacher at South Shore angry that his principal was removed Aug. 14th, can't maintain Level 1+ school #chibudget2016
Naomi O'Hiri, parent of child w/ Down's- DON'T balance budget on the needs of special needs students #chibudget2016
TIF $1.4 billion dollars- use that money to close the budget! #chibudget2016
Rahm, you work for us. Give us back our city, give us back our special education money for our special needs students! #chibudget2016
Beard teacher- special education cuts are drastic. @RahmEmanuel as a father think about if your child needed those services #chibudget2016
#chibudget2016 hearing wouldn't let me in with an empty plastic water bottle or bottle of mail polish. Beefing up security, folks.
Great coverage of #chibudget2016 by Sun Times. Great work @me_lizbrown @tomstee @ZSMITH29thward chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/92...
We are Dyett mic check! #WeAreDyett #FightForDyett #chibudget2016
Rahm Emanuel doesn't care bout black ppl; cops arrest black/brown folk on low-level arrests #chibudget2016 @BYP_100
Crowd shouts #SaveSpecialEd aftr @aegriffs describes how special ed teachers will b reduced to babysitters w/ special ed cuts #chibudget2016
Shut down All Means All program. 84% of All Means All Schools got special ed cuts. Here's the schools #chibudget2016
After #AnswerTheQuestion chants, @RahmEmanuel agreed to go with Forrest Claypool aftr #chibudget2016 to meet with #Dyett12 #FightForDyett
Darletta #Dyett alum against notion of black/brown communities as underperformin wen programs & $$ cut #chibudget2016
Advocate for mental illness and mental health clinics is cut off after a minute. Boos "Let her finish" #chibudget2016
And then they recognize that without pension bills from the governor's office that we're in a big hole #chibudget2016
And then boos and disbelief from the crowd when they start talking about TIFs and how they're spending #chibudget2016
What they claim to have done to balance the budget... #ChiBudget2016
"We cut unnecessary employees" Yearly budget cuts #chibudget2016
Deficits and Revenues chart from what I can hear. They're going quick #chibudget2016
"Addressing the Challenges Ahead" in Chicago budget #chibudget2016
Where the money goes- 2015 Budgeted Expenditures via #chibudget2016 hearing
Where the money comes from- 2015 Budgeted Revenue via #chibudget2016 hearing right now at Malcolm X
"One minute? Come on, man, be real" from the crowd. Another telling the speaker "Your minute is up!" #Chibudget2016
One minute speeches? What? Murmurs from the crowd, seeming not enough time at #ChiBudget2016 hearing at Malcolm X #Dyett #FightForDyett