I actually put on a tie and went on English Language Al Jazeera last night with
Jitu Brown and a smarmy wing-nut from the Heritage Foundation,
Jason Richwine. They didn't tell me up front that there would be three of us sharing about 20 minutes of air time. My intention was to plug the CReATE Research Brief on School Closings. But I didn't get much of a chance to do that. I had to shout out the address,
createchicago.blogspot.com as the show was winding down, and probably got it wrong. I'll have to watch the Inside Story video once they put it up.
I wasn't sure who Richwine was at first. I vaguely remembered him from
an anti-union screed a while back, about the
"ongoing whine from teachers unions and their fellow travelers that public school teachers don’t earn enough money."
Last night he had all the well-scripted stock cliches about Chicago public schools not being "cost effective." Jitu
