Preparing the future worker bees of America
By South Side CPS Mom, Tuesday at 5:17 pm
There's a test at the end of this, so read, click, and watch carefully.
Penny Pritzker is just off the Chicago Board of Ed now, purportedly heading to DC to become Commerce Secretary.
She served for the last two years but has long been connected with corporate education reform. She's a huge charter supporter, ushering Stand for Children here and lending her family name to Noble Street's Pritzker College Prep (just like Rauner!). Pritzker herself used her role on the board to energetically support the mayor's efforts to lengthen school day and year, shut down schools, and expand charters, and was instrumental in bringing Barbara Byrd Bennett to town.
A wonderful youtube video featuring Matt Farmer skewers Pritzker and the mayor for hypocrisy in their draconian administration of public schools while sending their children to a private school which in no way conforms to their ideal of public education. Incidentally, a private school which disavows every reform initiative the mayor aims for.
There is an insightful interview available on WBEZ, on which Farmer bases
