Byrd-Bennett had taken over the job from an unfortunate gentleman named Jean-Claude Brizard, who was forced to take the fall when Emanuel lost a teachers' strike in 2012.* She was then tasked with another of Emanuel's sketchy initiatives: closing fifty-four schools, many of which were in the city's black neighborhoods.
Ms. Preckwinkle used her budget address last week to push an initiative close to her heart that also would save taxpayers money: reducing the populations of the Cook County Jail and the county's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
The benefits for schools having better broadband access are obvious and are in line with the wider, philanthropic remit of Internet.org, another initiative close to Zuckerberg and Facebook.
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Only 8% (5/64) of participants mentioned the national government initiative, the 'Closing the Gap' program, as a point to discuss in subsequent teaching.
Dr. Richard F. Daines, a former New York state health commissioner who espoused politically risky public health initiatives like closing hospitals and banning the use of food stamps to buy soda, died on Saturday at his family farm in Stanfordville, N.Y., in Dutchess County.
Activists in both regions, however, are now working on a November ballot initiative to close down the brothels; they've already gotten enough signatures in Lyon County to put the initiative to a vote.
In addition, labor unions want voters to approve even bigger sales and income tax increases, and environmental groups last week proposed an initiative to close a business tax loophole that they said would produce $1.2 billion for education and energy projects.
And a group of environmentalists, led by Thomas F. Steyer, the founder of Farallon Capital Management in San Francisco, has proposed an initiative to close a loophole that has allowed out-of-state companies to avoid paying an estimated $1.1 billion in taxes to California.
