Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Closing Duncan's Chicago 'Renaissance' Schools

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Closing Duncan's Chicago 'Renaissance' Schools:

Closing Duncan's Chicago 'Renaissance' Schools

by Mike Klonsky

Obama came to Dodge school in 2009 and used the visit to announce Duncan's appointment as Sec. of Education

While Arne Duncan was whisking in the children of the rich and powerful into Chicago's elite, selective-enrollment schools, he was also pushing a system of new start-ups and charters under his Renaissance 2010 program.


But, according to WBEZ's Becky Vevea,  in the most recent round of proposed school closings, CPS is shutting down the very schools Duncan created.

Eleven years ago, on April 10, 2002, Duncan announced he would shut down three elementary