Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Have we really made CPS and wing of City Hall?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Have we really made CPS and wing of City Hall?:

Have we really made CPS and wing of City Hall?

It's like a bad dream...

A foul-mouthed megalomaniac is given autocratic control over the schools in the nation's third largest city. He doesn't particularly care for public education and certainly wouldn't send his own children to a public school -- especially to one that had implemented his own version of school reform. "Reforms" like diverting public school funds to privately-run charter schools, the longer school day with fewer teachers, bare-bones budgets, over-sized classrooms, no libraries, banned books, and with less art and music are for THOSE kids, not for the Emanuel's. He and his wealthy patrons are sworn enemies of public employee unions andhe's fond of dropping F-bombs on the African-American woman president of the CTU.

The demolition of La Casita

This is a mayor who, like his predecessor, wants to privatize orsell-off all things public, including the schools and their programs, while in the process, eroding public decision-making and collective bargaining rights.

What he can't sell, he closes, even if it means violating the civil rights