Rahm Emanuel's Low Hanging Fruit

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"Rahm Emanuel said his low hanging fruit within his first hundred days were going to be off the backs of educators, students and their families in those school communities," she says. "He came in saying that the teacher in the union were two different things ... He's not a dumb man, you may not like him... You may not agree with him and he's not dumb." She adds: "We didn't know that that situation had already been completed before we started"

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