Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Turnaround cronyism at Collins High

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Turnaround cronyism at Collins High:

Turnaround cronyism at Collins High

by Mike Klonsky

Be sure and read Matt Farmer's excellent Huffington post on Chicagoturnarounds. He lays bare the crony relationship between venture capitalist Mike Koldyke's Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) and the mayor. It ends up with AUSL being handed Collins High for their very own. 

That's when the money started to roll in. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation quickly ponied up $1 million to the heavy-hitters at AUSL for the Collins turnaround effort. That same