Sunday, November 20, 2011

School Tech Connect: Thank God

School Tech Connect: Thank God:

Thank God

And we're back. Every day I thank God that I haven't been brutally pepper-sprayed by police in Seattle, NYC, or at UC-Davis.

In Chicago, we're approaching the deadline for CEO Brizard to announce his school closing list, which is how modern urban "portfolio" districts react to poverty. In an intensification of policies that have not worked, Brizard is going to recommend to the school board by November 21 which schools he's giving up on, and then the Board will finalize that list on December 1. The Board is appointed, accountable only to one man, Rahm Emanuel, who was elected by 23% of the city's registered voters, and funded by every millionaire and billionaire in town. The scattering and reshuffling of poverty-impacted populations is pretty much the bureaucratic equivalent of pepper