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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More on Rahm turning Chicago into Wisconsin

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More on Rahm turning Chicago into Wisconsin:


More on Rahm turning Chicago into Wisconsin

All eyes it seem, are on Chicago, where the CTU refuses to roll over in the face of Rahm Emanuel's assault on teachers' collective bargaining rights and on the teaching profession itself.

The other day, Sun-Times reporter, Fran Speilman asked Rahm a great question. She wanted to know if the mayor was concerned, "whether the showdown with teachers threatens to turn Chicago into 'another Wisconsin?'”

Joravsky
The Reader's Ben Joravsky takes off in a similar vein:
Cut pay, hike hours, keep class size large, offer no music, drama, or art, and dole out millions and millions of dollars to the mayor’s nonunion charter school cronies—all in the name of the kids. Of course. 'Cause the kids is what this is all about. I have a feeling that the script might have to change, if only cause we're on the eve of a presidential election. We can't have President Obama ripping Mitt Romney for ripping teachers while, back in sweet home Chicago, the president's former chief of staff's hell-bent on