"I've never, ever said that we were not going to also come up with the resources to make sure our schools were well funded, and we were investing in them — teachers," Emanuel said of the tax increase provision he hinted at last week. "And we never wanted to be in a situation where it was a choice between continuing to invest in our children's future or paying our teachers' pensions. So we'll be able to do our pensions and ... continue to invest in our children."