Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: At City Hall this morning

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: At City Hall this morning:

At City Hall this morning

by Mike Klonsky

Rahm, "no negotiations..."

I'm heading down to City Hall this morning for a 9:30 press conference outside the mayor's office. Wendy Katten from theRaise Your Hand Coalition and representatives from the research group CReATE will be releasing their latest reports on Chicago's mass school closings and urging Rahm's hand-picked Board of Education to back off the closings.

They and the mayor would do well to listen. But it's not likely. Rahm has made it clear that he's done negotiating (when did he ever bdgin) and that he plans to march straight ahead with his ill-conceived, dangerous, and poorly researched plan.

The real impact of the closings has been greatly underestimated. The media continues to use 30,000 as the number of students likely to be affected by the closing of 54 CPS