Breaking. Demolition crews at Whittier School in Pilsen. Parents threatened with arrest.
Outside Whittier School in Pilsen early Friday evening. La Casita, the building parents and community residents around Whittier School in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood wanted for a library may not survive the night. Twitter and Facebook accounts say that demolition crews have arrived. Police are threatening parents with arrest. The National Lawyers Guild has posted: “We have been contacted rega
The in box. “You never want a good crisis to go to waste.” – Rahm Emanuel
- Kenzo Shibata In Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine, she explains how immediately after Hurricane Katrina, Friedman used the decimation of New Orleans’ infrastructure to push for charter schools, a market-based policy preference of Friedman acolytes. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was the CEO of Chicago Public Schools at the time, and later described Hurricane Katrina as “the best thing that ha
The in box. The invisible (wo)man.
From Jose Vilson: If we believe in two sides of education reform (I don’t), then one side seems to do a better job of proffering their people of color more so than the other, at least from the outside. Even if we believe Michelle Rhee, Steve Perry (the principal), and the rest merely serve as puppets to a corporate agenda, to the casual observer, that side espouses diversity much more than “this”
Saturday coffee.
August in New York. We are officially in the last half of August. Officially. Was last summer my first official summer of retirement? Or was this summer the official one? Retirement was supposed to mean that Anne and I would do our traveling off season. Not in summer. This summer we traveled a lot. This week we are taking our final official summer trip. Saturday coffee is in Brooklyn. Sunday we
8-15-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Senator Kwame Raoul and the disarray in the Illinois Democratic Party. Pension bomber Representative Elaine Nekritz and Pension Committee Chair Senator Kwame Raoul. Illinois Democrats have a problem. In the eyes of many voters they appear to be Republicans. Democrats control both chambers of the stat