In the News: Getting at why school choice fails
By: Cassandra West / December 06, 2011
Natalie Hopkinson, a Washington-based writer and parent, takes on the perverse inequities that play out along racial lines and have resulted from a "reform" process that proponents say will bring choice and accountability to school systems in majority-black neighborhoods such as hers. (The New York Times)
Chicago Teachers Union officials say they are coming to the rescue of ailing schools, with plans on how they would spend the same budget the Academy of Urban School Leadership is being given to “turnaround’’ ailing Chicago Public Schools, CTU President Karen Lewis said Friday. Lewis called closing schools