TIF Storybook Reading
Video Posted by Ed Hershey
This cute video posted by Ed Hershey during the Chicago Teachers Strike features a delegate reading a children's version storybook based on the story Are You My Mother? where a little bird is looking all over for its mother, asking different animals until it finally finds its mother.
In this version written by teachers and former public school students, a little girl is looking for her mayor so she can get a nurse, social worker, librarian and other support staff in each school like in the surrounding suburbs. She runs into important looking men and women like billionaire Penny Pritzker who tell the little girl, no the city is broke and cannot give money to the schools for those basic necessities because they took the TIF or Tax Increment Financing money for their hotels, businesses, Navy Pier, or luxury condos, and there's no more money for the schools. The little girl does find the mayor in the end, and Mayor Lightfoot finally tells her what every city person who cares about education wants to hear ...
Video Posted by Ed Hershey
This cute video posted by Ed Hershey during the Chicago Teachers Strike features a delegate reading a children's version storybook based on the story Are You My Mother? where a little bird is looking all over for its mother, asking different animals until it finally finds its mother.
In this version written by teachers and former public school students, a little girl is looking for her mayor so she can get a nurse, social worker, librarian and other support staff in each school like in the surrounding suburbs. She runs into important looking men and women like billionaire Penny Pritzker who tell the little girl, no the city is broke and cannot give money to the schools for those basic necessities because they took the TIF or Tax Increment Financing money for their hotels, businesses, Navy Pier, or luxury condos, and there's no more money for the schools. The little girl does find the mayor in the end, and Mayor Lightfoot finally tells her what every city person who cares about education wants to hear ...
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