Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Hanging with the wrong crowd

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Hanging with the wrong crowd

Hanging with the wrong crowd

by Mike Klonsky

If Rahm Emanuel were to become Chicago's next mayor, expect more of the same--more school closings, more teacher firings, more privatization. Why?


Emanuel is talking to all the wrong Chicago people about education. It's the same old Ownership Society crowd that dreamed up Renaissance 2010 (I know. We're not supposed to mention that word any more). Even the Civic Committee called the results, "abysmal."

They're the Pritzkers; they're Mayor Daley's patronage boys, like Juan