How Reform Lost Seth Lavin
There were no kids in class on Friday, for better or worse. During the week ahead, there are more hearings about school closings and turnarounds. Then report cards get sent home and it's February. Most of you who comment here are angrily (or, it seems, gleefully) opposed to most everything Emanuel and Brizard are trying to do. (It's much the same at the national level.) But there are many others, readers and those too busy or turned off by the fighting to read or comment, who see the obvious need for change and want to believe that Emanuel and Brizard can deliver at least some of the improvements for kids that have been promised. (Seriously, Chicago
