Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm: Taking the public out of public education

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm: Taking the public out of public education

Rahm: Taking the public out of public education

by Mike Klonsky

Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel, is kind of making it up as he goes along on school reform. If he wins the election, he will replace Mayor Daley as the school system's new autocrat. Although he appears to know next to nothing about public education, he will get to pick a new group of bankers and real estate speculators to replace those currently on the board of education. They in turn will choose a new C.E.O. (that's what we call the superintendent these days) to replace Ron Huberman. It will likely be a manager from another city department, who is a machine loyalist and who