by hanhayes | Jul 31, 2013 | Chicago News, Education
At a recent family picnic, an elderly uncle growled at me for wearing a “radical political” t-shirt. My shirt has the popular internet meme “Every Chicago Public School is My School,” which accurately captured the groundswell of anger at Rahm...
by admin | Apr 5, 2013 | Chicago News, Education
Note: This post was from February25, 2013 How hypocritical is it that CPS says that school closings have nothing to do with charter schools – yet the Walton Family Foundation (who have made CPS the largest recipient of funds for charter schools in their massive...
by admin | Dec 11, 2012 | Chicago News, Education, Uncategorized
“I wish we had more demand. I wish we had a lot more parents … demanding a world-class education—not just on the policy side, but on the advocacy side.” – Arne Duncan, Education Week I have to wonder sometimes if I’m on the same...
by admin | Nov 28, 2012 | Chicago News, Education, Politics, Uncategorized
These past few weeks as I’ve watched government operate at the local level, I can’t help but think that Harold Washington would be rolling in his grave. As we’ve been commemorating Harold’s all-too-short realm of openness and fairness, so-called “open hearings” these...
by admin | Oct 24, 2012 | Chicago News, Education
Four weeks ago I attended a candlelight vigil outside of Price Elementary School (49th and Drexel) as students and teachers prepared to board a bus to Washington DC. They joined groups in four other cities who filed separate complaints with the Department of...
by admin | Sep 12, 2012 | Chicago News, Education, Politics
In the 1980s I covered three Chicago teacher strikes as an education reporter for a community newspaper. Today, twenty-five years after the last strike I reported on, I am watching as a parent. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what is different about this...
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