Our Schools Are Basketcases of Anxiety
You've might not have heard of Michelle Young, president of Action Now. She's the mother of children who attend a Chicago public school, and she's also on the local school council of May Community Academy. I hadn't heard of her until I saw her testimony in front of an Illinois senate committe, and I live in this town. I gotta get out more.
Illinois is in the middle of some high opera. The combination of teacher-loathing and public employee bashing and pension busting has created the perfect storm, so that outside groups promoting education "reform" are being given a loud microphone. Apparently we're not going to get the votes to raise the income tax in this state unless some teachers are punished.
Anyway, I clearly don't know her. She lives in one of the communities where schools are likely to be shut down, unlike the person next to her, who knows better. By the way, the person next to her is Robin Steans, who will say this, as you'll see tomorrow:
Illinois is in the middle of some high opera. The combination of teacher-loathing and public employee bashing and pension busting has created the perfect storm, so that outside groups promoting education "reform" are being given a loud microphone. Apparently we're not going to get the votes to raise the income tax in this state unless some teachers are punished.
Anyway, I clearly don't know her. She lives in one of the communities where schools are likely to be shut down, unlike the person next to her, who knows better. By the way, the person next to her is Robin Steans, who will say this, as you'll see tomorrow:
Studies repeatedly and consistently show that a teacher’s influence is 20 times greater than any
