Web Video: Boost Neighborhood Schools--Progress Illinois
From Progress Illinois, 2.3.2011
by Micah Maidenberg
Miguel del Valle's mayoral campaign is highlighting an effective new web video that emphasizes a point so simple it seems to have been largely overlooked in the debate about education in Chicago's mayoral race: the vast, vast majority of Chicago Public School students don't attend selective enrollment schools. They don't attend charters. They attend neighborhood schools that need support.
Del Valle, throughout the course of the mayoral race, has been out front in talking about helping neighborhood schools. Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel, meanwhile, is deeply invested in a particular kind of school reform (as is, in large part, Gery Chico), and hasn't discussed them as much. Emanuel has said he wants to ramp up the pace of "turnarounds" at CPS and keep rolling out charter schools. He backs the Performance Counts bill in Springfield, which would make it harder for teachers to strike (the Chicago Teachers Union hasn't walked out
by Micah Maidenberg
Miguel del Valle's mayoral campaign is highlighting an effective new web video that emphasizes a point so simple it seems to have been largely overlooked in the debate about education in Chicago's mayoral race: the vast, vast majority of Chicago Public School students don't attend selective enrollment schools. They don't attend charters. They attend neighborhood schools that need support.
Del Valle, throughout the course of the mayoral race, has been out front in talking about helping neighborhood schools. Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel, meanwhile, is deeply invested in a particular kind of school reform (as is, in large part, Gery Chico), and hasn't discussed them as much. Emanuel has said he wants to ramp up the pace of "turnarounds" at CPS and keep rolling out charter schools. He backs the Performance Counts bill in Springfield, which would make it harder for teachers to strike (the Chicago Teachers Union hasn't walked out
