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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Inside Chicago's school "Renaissance"

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Inside Chicago's school "Renaissance"

Inside Chicago's school "Renaissance"

Duncan/Daley's 2-tiered school system

"We didn't want to advertise what we were doing because we didn't want a bunch of people calling."David Pickens, former top aide to Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan

Arne Duncan's favorite slogan this year is, "education is the civil rights issue of our generation." But the current investigation by Chicago's Inspector General, who interviewed Duncan, shows that what the former schools CEO and current secretary of education means by "civil rights" is special back-door admissions for the children of the clout-heavy, into the