UPDATE: Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In the 'trenches'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In the 'trenches':

Malaria and good schools. 'Problem solved'

Reader Rufus responds to Bill Gates with a comment on my Schooling in the Ownership Society Blog. This one is too good to leave in the comments section.Rufus August 6, 2014Gates claims it's easier to find cures for malaria and other diseases than to “fix” American education.Neither of those things are as difficult as Gates makes them sound. Just look in Bill and Melinda's neighborhood. No malaria

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In the 'trenches'

At the Hideout last night. 

It was another packed house at the Hideout last night for the Joravsky/Dumke Show featuring Chicago's three best education writers, Linda Lutton (WBEZ),Lauren Fitzpatrick (Sun-Times) and Sara Karp (Catalyst). The three painfully/humorously ran through story after story about CPS' and City Hall's ongoing dis-information and obfuscation campaigns earning Rahm and his team the enmity of every reporter in town.

In response to a question from the audience, all three were united in their predictions that CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett wouldn't last through March.

BLEEDING... Rahm's infrastructure is in shambles with many of his top experienced staffers bailing on him just as election season nears. From what I'm hearing, the exodus is just beginning. Most recently it was his top deputy for education Beth Swanson using the revolving corporate-reform door between City Hall and the Joyce Foundation. Swanson is usually noted for her "pivotal role in negotiating an end to the 2012 teachers strike." But as one of Rahm's top guns, Swanson could just as easily have carried the political epitaph, "played a pivotal Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In the 'trenches':