Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Parents beat back Rahm's re-segregation at LaSalle Academy

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Parents beat back Rahm's re-segregation at LaSalle Academy:

Parents beat back Rahm's re-segregation at LaSalle Academy

by Mike Klonsky

LaSalle Language Academy

When Arne Duncan was Chicago schools CEO, one of his first goals was to eliminate the city's court ordered desegregation plan. The fight was carried on under Mayor Daley's regime by Duncan's successor, Ron Huberman, who finally got a federal judge to liquidate the consent decree. Rahm Emanuel's attempt to carry on Duncan's tradition and re-segregate one of the city's few remaining integrated magnet schools has been beaten back by protesting parents.

Emanuel tried to phase out LaSalle Language Academy Magnet School,