by admin | Apr 17, 2013 | Education
This week The Nation took the struggle to keep Canter Leadership Academy open nationwide. While it’s a great boost for the community fighting to keep it open, it also should heighten the debate about public education and corporate school reform. As I pointed out...
by hanhayes | Apr 16, 2013 | Education
At long last, it seems that education is making headline news across the country. Unfortunately, it’s not good news. Perhaps we can thank Rahm Emanuel for his insistence on closing a record 54 schools while “turning around” 11 even though schools CEO Barbara Byrd...
by admin | Apr 10, 2013 | Education, Uncategorized
The first comment Rahm Emmanuel had about school closings was that he wasn’t going to get pulled into name-calling and “schoolyard taunts.” The intent of that was to further polarize the city by throwing it back to Chicago Teacher’s Union...
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...
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