Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More EdelGate

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More EdelGate

More EdelGate

Gov. Quinn signs the bill.

Huffington's Will Guzzardi summarizes the Edelman video [transcribed version is here] and subsequent apology. He recounts how corporate reformers, Stand For Children, led by Jonah Edelman, successfully played on the rift between Chicago political boss, Sen.Mike Madigan, and the unions over pensions, to pass SB7.

Edelman's talk, which he gave at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday, June 28, is a narrative of how Stand for Children systematically chose its political allies in the Illinois, invested over $600,000 in nine state legislative races, raised another $3 million, and

Who fed Rahm his longer-school-day talking points?

by Mike Klonsky

It was Jonah Edelman & Co.
"The data shows that the longer you stay in the classroom learning, you'll learn more..." -- Rahm EmanuelIn my May 5th Huffington Post, "Rahm Still Believes in Texas 'Miracles,'" I ask who it was who fed the mayor his talking points about Houston's supposed longer school day. Rahm, as you may recall, was misleading some local students from Malcolm X College by