Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The lies of Texas...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The lies of Texas...:

The lies of Texas...

When Chicago's mayor and school boss, Rahm Emanuel, held up Houston as his model for school reform, it gave me the creeps. His rationale was that Houston schools are superior because of their longer school day and year.Rahm claimed that kids in Houston wound up with 4 more years of instruction. It was a political talking point admittedly fed to him by Jonah Edelman and Children First.

Now it's left to Rahm to explain why Houston's Lee High School is currently