Friday, January 11, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Commission report on school closings means uphill battle for Rahm

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Commission report on school closings means uphill battle for Rahm:


Commission report on school closings means uphill battle for Rahm

"Closing high schools highly correlates to drop out rates and spikes of violence. Hopefully they learned their lesson about that." -- Karen Lewis
Parent and community voices from Chicago's targeted neighborhoods are ringing out so loudly against school closings, that the mayor's "reform" strategy -- replacing public schools with privately-run charters, has now