You heard about the kids. You saw the video. Here’s the story.

Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ has a website that includes City Life by Achy Obejas. In her recent post she gives us some background on the Sullivan High School students who made the video in response to Rahm Emanuel’s slam of Chicago public high schools.

Gerardo Aguilera, Alexandra Alvarez, and Cristina Henriquez are all juniors at Sullivan High School. These students’ efforts to mobilize their community to support Miguel Del Valle has been developing since Gerardo attended the mayoral forum for high school students put on by the non-partisan Mikva Challenge organization last month. Gerardo was inspired by what he saw and took it upon himself to research each candidate individually. What he discovered was that Miguel Del Valle was committed to improving the quality of neighborhood public schools.