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A vote for Rahm is a vote for Arne Duncan on steroids. Except that Arne Duncan is already Arne Duncan on steroids. « Fred Klonsky's blog

A vote for Rahm is a vote for Arne Duncan on steroids. Except that Arne Duncan is already Arne Duncan on steroids. « Fred Klonsky's blog

A vote for Rahm is a vote for Arne Duncan on steroids. Except that Arne Duncan is already Arne Duncan on steroids.

DECEMBER 9, 2010
by Fred Klonsky

I don’t care where Rahmageddon lives.

And I really don’t care where Rahmageddon sends is little children to school. He can send them to Latin or Francis Parker or home school for all I care.

I care that he wants to “ramp up” school turn arounds.

Rahmageddon is calling for 35 more school turn arounds over the next few years.

Reaching 35 turnarounds over a four-year period would ramp up the pace of that policy at CPS. The first occurred in 2006, at Sherman Elementary School on the South Side, and since that time 11 other institutions have gone through the process, at an average of three per