Remember, Byrd-Bennett's promise(s)?
One of my favorite quotes comes from Mark Twain who said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." The problem for Rahm and Byrd-Bennett is that they lie and we remember.
We remember, for example, Byrd-Bennett's promise that schools would be closed only if the displaced children could be sent to better schools.
But back in April, we knew something was amiss. The Sun-Timed reported that only 2/3 of the kids actually ended up at a higher rated school.
Now you can toss those figures out as well. Sarah Karp at Catalyst has up-to-date numbers and the S-T wasn't even close. She writes:
We remember, for example, Byrd-Bennett's promise that schools would be closed only if the displaced children could be sent to better schools.
But back in April, we knew something was amiss. The Sun-Timed reported that only 2/3 of the kids actually ended up at a higher rated school.
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Now, with the revelation that only 60 percent of displaced students enrolled in their designated welcoming school, the academic