CPS Board President David Vitale is back.
July 9, 2012
Strange. For some reason my drawing of CPS Board President David Vitale was removed from my blog.
I didn’t do it.
But I’m putting it back.
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Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
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