And Biden has tapped former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as ambassador to Japan, a pick that’ll generate controversy even as it’s been floated for months.
As a grad student, I covered Emanuel’s decision to shutter 50 schools. Here’s a piece I did during that time for @NPR about the impact to special needs students latinousa.org/2013/05/24/chi…
It’s been a crazy eight years of reporting since then, but few stories have personally compared to the experience of watching families and teachers plead for months fit their schools to be saved as the list got whittled down to the final 50.
A Chicago friend messages that this gets Rahm as far away from Chicago as possible. cc: @Tanvim

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