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Chicago Teachers' Union Leader Blasts Gambling Plan

ILLINOIS – As reported by the The president of the Chicago Teachers Union on Friday blasted Gov. Blagojevich's latest education revenue plan, saying it merely put a "Band-Aid' on a serious, structural funding problem.

"One day after Blagojevich proposed doubling the number of slot machines and gaming tables in existing casinos to pump money into cash-strapped schools, the head of the state's largest teachers union weighed in on the plan.

"…Blagojevich has not lived up to his billing as 'the education governor,' Stewart said during a taping of WBBM-AM (780)'s

"…Blagojevich stood behind his expanded slots-for-schools plan. At a news conference Friday at the Thompson Center, he said his latest idea was not an about-face on his pledge not to allow any expansion of gambling in Illinois…"

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