Tomorrow, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing reelection. Responsible for appointing both the CEO and school board, Emanuel exercises enormous control over the city’s public schools. Under his leadership, Chicago shut down forty-nine public schools in 2013.

“The School Closure Playbook” is a video essay about Emanuel’s education policies, and how they have served as a prototype for a broader neoliberal campaign against public schools. The coordinated, bipartisan, billionaire-led effort is outlined in documents such as the Gates Foundation’s “The Turnaround Challenge” and the Broad Foundation’s “School Closure Guidebook.”