Chicago Public Schools under federal investigation for civil rights violations in school closings.
From WBEZ:
National education officials are investigating how Chicago Public Schools has handled closing schools in recent years.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that CPS is one of six urban school districts being investigated by the department’s Office of Civil Rights. School
John Dillon: Perhaps there are other voices besides the extremists.
What We Are One and what the petition desires are not so very different: to call attention to serious long-term answers to the revenue crisis in Illinois, and to demand that the General Assembly address the problem without breaking the contractual agreements made to all in the public sector who have given what was asked – in work and in payment. In the last week, proposals by Representative Naomi Jakobsson and Representative Linda Chapa La Via for a graduated income tax (HJRCA0002) may perhaps demonstrate a first legislative recognition that revenue is both the problem and the answer. Last spring, I listened to the Representative Bill Cunningham, Representative Kelly Burke, and Representative Mary Flowers endorse their own beliefs that a graduated income tax was necessary in the near future to help Illinois move forward
Ten minute drawing. Jerry Garcia.
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My old stalker pal Ben Velderman. Still looking weird after all these years.
New readers to this blog may not know about my stalker Ben Velderman.
Let me do a quick recap.
A couple of years ago when I was still employed as a teacher in Park Ridge District 64 – back before my days as a retiree pension activist – a little cult of right-wing yahoos in Western Michigan called the Education Action Group filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all my work emails and my personnel file.
Why? Because I was an activist, unionist and widely read education blogger and they wanted to shut me up.
The EAG is grandly misnamed. They have little to do with Education. Their action