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In the News: TIF spending on schools adds to inequality
June 07, 2012
By: Cassandra West

Chicago's beleaguered tax-increment financing program is taking another big hit, this time over where and how it's spent more than $800 million building and repairing public schools.

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In the News: High schools get IBM grant; charters' finances in good shape
October 05, 2011
By: Cassandra West

A $400,000 “challenge grant” from IBM will help five Chicago Public high schools — spread across the city —reshape their curricula and re-train teachers to focus on math, science and technology “jobs of tomorrow.”

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Aldermen sign on to CTU-backed TIF ordinance
October 04, 2011
By: Rebecca Harris

At a Tuesday morning news conference, community groups and the Chicago Teachers Union touted a City Council ordinance – to be introduced tomorrow by Ald. Scott Waguespack – that would return half of Chicago’s unused tax-increment financing funds back to the city and 55 percent of that money to the schools.

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