Cheat Sheet is your quick and dirty guide to the often contentious, always entertaining Chicago Board of Education meetings. There is a lot to talk about this month, and while children may be back in school, many laid-off teachers still aren’t. WBEZ’s education reporter Linda Lutton was at yesterday’s meeting. She talks about how it all played out.

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Board of Education Regular Monthly Meeting, September 22, 2010

Music Button:  Essra Mohawk, “Interjections”, from the DVD Schoolhouse Rock, (Disney)