Rahm Emanuel

departments, the pay scale is top-heavy. Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago, the fourth-highest paid city employee, has an annual base salary of almost $203,000. Pension, benefits and bonuses are extra. His base salary is only $13,000 less than Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s base salary is $45,000 more than the mayor. Both the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Police Department appear at the bottom…

Emanuel then apologized to the whole city of Chicago about the incident. Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, blames himself for the doing of another person because he owns the city—he feels as if it was his own fault. In my own personal opinion, I feel like this world is going to hell. Day by…

president of National PTA (Thornton). Studies have also proven that music education reinforces critical analysis skills, while also enhance problem-solving skills and exercises the memory. Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel is a strong believer in the importance of art education. Rahm Emanuel says that parents of young children should be exposing children to music and other art forms at the same time they start to read to…

Schools closing, teachers going on strikes, budget cuts. These are all headlines that have been surrounding the Chicago Public School System over the last few years and especially this past October. In 2013 Mayor Rahm Emanuel approved the largest school closure in Chicago history by closing 48 elementary schools and one high school. This massive school closing is still affecting Chicago residents today. Children are being forced to take longer walks to schools through bad neighborhoods. School…

The morning after the victory, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel made the announcement that the parade will take place the following Friday. Leaving Wrigley Field, the busses full of players and staff would be taken throughout Chicago to Grant Park, where the rally would take place. The day became an unofficial…

n Excellency within a child’s educational endeavors begins with a comprehensive look at policies that institute educational facilities. Ecological factors including family, the community, and the individual can be indicative of how a child will thrive. From birth to eight is a vital period in the development of a child’s learning and social endeavors; this timeframe sets the foundational groundwork for an education. Governance in the City of Chicago sees the importance of educationally…

hours of November 25th, 2014 the #blacklivesmatter was used on Twitter about 10,000 times. In the four hours of the day following the verdict, it was used 92,784 times (Demby). Because of the increased support from the police for BLM, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake fired their police chiefs amid protests over police brutality in 2015 (Foran). Awareness and prevention of police brutality are two of the ideas that BLM advocates for. With this in mind, BLM…

Social Scientific Inquiry is the socio-cultural aspect of human biology including anthropology, economics, political science, law, sociology, criminal justice, and social psychology. This concept is important in a living community where everyone has to abide by certain regulation to coexist with each other. It is more so valid in high-populated city when there is many people share an environment with each other. You have to be able to observe and comprehend what others are doing in order to live…

David Sirota presents several different arguments in this article, but there is one overlying truth that can be supported by sub-arguments. I will explore and explain the author’s opinions and arguments and analyze the extent to which the argument is presented. Following the outline of our first graded homework, the overall claim and premises found can be identified as follows: Claim: Public school “reformers” fail to recognize and solve the real issue affecting schools- poverty. P1:…

Economic disparities have exponential effects on the lives of children. For example, in impoverished communities have a higher propensity for violence. Poverty alone can manifest in many ways resulting in low academic achievement, not pursuing a post-secondary education, and early pregnancy. To address this matter lawmakers have begun to shift how children are being taught. New studies have begun to use science as an avenue to better the field of education. Research has found, that the…