Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The politics of fear. The path of least resistance.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The politics of fear. The path of least resistance.:

The politics of fear. The path of least resistance.

On my fridge today.

The politics of fear sweep Ventura Cty schools. Takes me back to '50s duck-and-cover days when they made us practice hiding under our desks in case the Russians nuked us. Definitely a downward press on test scores. Don't you think?

Good news for Chicago's elite. You can send your kindergartner to a new, IB-accredited school with an "an entrepreneurial focus" for only $32,000/year (a fifth-grader at the school opening in fall 2014 would pay $37,000). The GEMS World Academy plans to go K-12 and offers a good view of the lake shore, plus your kindy won't have to be near those kids, if you get my drift. You listening, Rahm? Better than Lab?

As Rahm continues to slash school budgets and shutter schools and public health facilities,he's shifting all responsibility for Chicago's debacle onto Springfield. Bombing the pension fund is