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SB7

July 23, 2012

State Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, who worked to get the Illinois education reform measure known as Senate Bill 7 passed last year, says it's working. "It's just not yielding the results that CPS and the mayor wanted. And, so it seems the Chicago Teachers Union out-maneuvered the bill, Tribune reporter Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah writes.

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