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Friday, February 24, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The noise of change

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The noise of change:

The noise of change

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he’s sensitive to the “noise associated with change.” -- Sun-Times
Somehow the words, "sensitive" and "Rahm" just don't sound right in the same sentence. Chicago's mayor claims he's in a big hurry to make "radical" change and that his so-called reforms can't wait.
“I cannot wait another year and allow a child to be caught in a school system that, for five years running, has been on the watch list or the troubled list with no prospect of getting off of it. 
 Nothing to me is worse in the sense of discrimination than leaving kids in a system that, year-in-

"Survival of the Fittest" in Rahm's Chicago