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...
by admin | Jan 29, 2013 | Education, Uncategorized
On Monday, the U.S.. Department of Education confirmed it will investigate complaints that school closings are discriminating against black and hispanic students and students with disabilities, the New York Times reports. While the Philadelphia city council just voted...
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 | Nov 15, 2012 | Education
Dear President Obama, I am still so very glad to wake up every morning to find you are still president. I worked hard to help make that happen, especially because the Affordable Care Act made a difference to me as it did for millions of people. But I’d like to...
by admin | Nov 6, 2012 | Politics
I’ve spent the last three days in Kenosha, Wisconsin for the final push in this long 2012 election year. We thought we’d be in Ohio but in the last few days, everyone from Illinois has been sent to Wisconsin. But we’re also working for Rob Zerban,...
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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