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Schooling in the Ownership Society
Crain's Hinz tips business' hand on Lewis run for mayor
A good sign for Karen Lewis. She's already got them nervous. No sooner had she hinted that she was "seriously considering" a run for mayor than Greg Hinz at Crain's jumped out with a patronizing, borderline racist column, warning Lewis to rethink the prospect. If Hinz's column is any indicator, just the thought of her running has got the one-percenters' shorts in a twist.I say, borderlin
Finally, a viable opponent for Mayor One-Percent?
“I’m a little sick of the mayor and I don’t see anyone stepping up,” Lewis told the Chicago Sun-Times by telephone Thursday evening. “I am seriously thinking about it.”"Do we want 'Star Wars' museums or public, neighborhood schools? Do we want presidential libraries or librarians for every child?" With the polls showing that, like Karen Lewis, most Chicagoans are sick of the mayor, the C
JUN 26
Ctu Statement On Cps Lay Off Of 1,150 More Teachers And Staff
NEWS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Stephanie GadlinJune 26, 2014 312/329-6250 EMANUEL CONTINUES ASSAULT ON CITY’S TEACHERSCHICAGO—Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis released the following statement regarding today’s announcement of 1,150 teacher and school suppor
Rauner still lying about his clout call to Duncan
Outgoing Inspector General James Sullivan on Chicago Tonight, tells what his investigation reveals about Bruce Rauner's clout call to Arne Duncan which got Rauner's unqualified kid into Walter Payton H.S. [2.53 on the video]. Our investigation revealed that there was a phone call made to the CEO’s office by Mr. Rauner, and after that somebody in the CEO’s office called Walter Payton and his daugh
Duncan a know-nothing when it comes to teaching kids with disabilities
Arne Duncan seems bent on pushing standardized-testing madness and privatization into the area of special ed and the teaching of kids with disabilities. That's the only way I can interpret his announced "major shift" in an area about which he appears immensely ignorant.Duncan claims, without offering any evidence, that the vast majority of the 6.5 million students with disabilities in U.
JUN 25
Chicago school closings went well, except for...
BEST QUOTE OF THE DAY RE. RAHM... Comes from S-T's Dan Mihalopoulos -- You don’t need to speak español to understand what hipocresía means. Sorry to bust any remaining bubbles out there, but no, closing 50 Chicago Public Schools last year didn't save us any money. Quite the opposite. A report from the Illinois General Assembly’s Chicago Educational Facilities Task Force now finds that the closings
JUN 24
Duncan's disaster, Mississippi churns
The Race To The Top is stalling out over testing and evaluation. Common Core roll-out has been an abysmal failure. High stakes testing data is invalid, unreliable and running too late to be used in mandated evaluations. Several states, including RTTT winners, are threatening to pull back or put test-base evaluations on hold. Sec. Duncan either has to respond by pulling the plug on federal funding
JUN 23
Weekend Quotables
Zephyr Teachout“The failure of the Dream Act and the failure of Fair Elections are all traceable to the fact that we don't have a Democratic Senate, and we don't have a Democratic Senate because Governor Cuomo has not acted like he's wanted one.” -- CapitalKate FroodLondon Headteacher Kate Frood"What's special about my generation of heads is that we were class teachers the 1980s, when it was