Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:
by Mike Klonsky
Mayor Bloomberg on stop-and-frisk
In that case, incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.” -- NYT
Arne Duncan on Common Core critics
The Common Core has become a rallying cry for fringe groups that claim it is a scheme for the federal government to usurp state and local control of what students learn. -- Washington Post
Ald. Fioretti on west side school closings
“The neighborhood schools are really the focal point of the land planning. But when this is boarded up, when this becomes an eyesore, when CPS doesn’t maintain the grounds for it, and nobody’s out there guarding it and all the items get stripped inside — who wants to live around an eyesore
