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- Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago Board of Education hoped to pinch a few million pennies by privatizing school cleaning services.
In his three years in office, Mayor Emanuel has tried such curious experiments in education as school libraries without librarians and school bathrooms without toilet paper.
We, the taxpayers, gave Aramark a three-year, $260 million contract to run janitorial services in most of our schools.
“Up to $40 million in savings . . . “
Well, as we’ve learned by now, it hasn’t quite worked out as promised.
Huh?
“With that microfiber thing, we don’t have to do the rinsing,” Lenny explains. “So instead of going over the floor twice, we only do it once. We’re supposed to do something else with the time we’re saving from not having to rinse the floor.”
