CHICAGO SCHOOLS: DEMOCRACY DENIED \ LAS ESCUELAS DE CHICAGO: UNA DEMOCRACIA DENEGADA
BY WILLIAM H. WATKINS PH.D. | TRUBUNO DEL PUEBLO (CHICAGO) | HTTP://BIT.LY/URXLOV
In this city, nobody gets to VOTE. It is a dictatorship.
For well over 100 years local school boards in America have been elected by the people. In the 1980s corporate sponsored reports, for example, Nation at Risk, began blaming public schools for America’s economic problems. Instead of looking at corporate greed, mortgage schemes and derivative gambling, big business deflected the spotlight to “declining” schools and waning test scores,