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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

So what if Stacy Davis Gates sends her son to a private school?

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates in September 2022. She recently made headlines for sending her son to a private school. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

If Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates thinks her neighborhood school doesn’t serve her son and wants to send him to a private school, that’s her choice.

And to her credit, she does not expect taxpayers to cover her son’s tuition. She understands that we improve public schools with resources, not with abandonment, and not by siphoning our tax dollars to private schools that are unaccountable to the taxpayers.

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