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Margaret Harrigan

CPS has great new playgrounds, too bad kids can't use them
December 29, 2005
By: Margaret Harrigan

Have you taken notice recently of your local Chicago public school? As an institution of great importance in the community, it has never looked better. Thanks to the demanding and appropriate expectations of Mayor Richard M. Daley and the genius and enterprise of Gery Chico, president of the Chicago Board of Education, and Chief Executive Officer Paul Vallas, Chicago's neglected public school buildings and their grounds have been transformed from dingy structures to rehabilitated, prideful institutions.

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