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Chance The Rapper donates $1 million to Chicago school system
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 8 March 2017
Chance The Rapper held a press conference yesterday to announce that he is donating $1 million to Chicago Public Schools. He also plans to work on raising further funding for the city’s school system.
The announcement comes after the rapper met with Illinois governor Bruce Rauner last week, after which he complained that he had been given “vague” answers to his concerns about education and social issues in Chicago and Illinois as a whole.
“This isn’t about politics, this isn’t about posturing, this is about taking care of the kids”, he said at yesterday’s press conference. “The cheque that I donated is a call to action. I’m challenging major companies and corporations in Chicago and across the US to donate and take action”.
Responding to the donation, Chicago Public Schools spokesperson Emily Bittner said: “As a CPS graduate, Chance has shown Chicago students not only the heights they can achieve but the generosity they can share. We also appreciate his strong advocacy for Chicago schoolchildren, who suffer under the state’s racially discriminatory system of funding, which Governor Rauner continues to perpetuate”.
Watch the full press conference here.
