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Violence and charter schools: an update + Now what’s Rahm up to? Parents United for Responsible Education

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Violence and charter schools: an update

Last July I wrote a long post drawing a connection between the rising youth violence in Chicago and charter schools.
President Obama speaks with students at Hyde Park Career Academy
President Obama speaks with students at Hyde Park Career AcademyThings have gotten a lot worse since then — so much so that President Obama finally had to come back home to address it.
I tried to be clear then that there are many causes of violence, but I was responding specifically to an editorial by New Schools for Chicago’s Phyllis Lockett, who suggested that charter schools were actually an answer to










Now what’s Rahm up to?

Barack Obama

These two sentences from President Obama’s speech at Hyde Park Career Academy have me scratching my head:
“(I)f you’re willing to play a role in a child’s education, then we’ll help you reform your schools. We want to seed more and more partnerships of the kind that Rahm is trying to set up.”
What was he talking about? Any ideas?