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Monday, March 25, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:


WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Trumbull Elementary student Daqueeta Holland, 10, left, sobs as she and friend Dyanna Davis, 10, lament that they'll be separated next year when Trumbull closes. (Chicago Tribune)
CTU Pres. Karen Lewis
“Performance has creeped back in the conversation. Every time you look up, they’ve changed the bar on what this is going to be about.” -- Sun-Times
Ald. Bob Fioretti
"I think they set them all up for failure. And then what they set up even worse was the communities and the parents and the faculties and the administration against each other." -- Ward Room
Cook County Board Pres. Toni Preckwinkle
Preckwinkle
"I don't know how the superintendent can say he's going to keep all the kids safe. I don't know what possessed him to say that." -- Reader 
Melissa Harris-Perry 
Now I  know there has been an outcry from communities,  in part because the