Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

by Mike Klonsky

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