Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: At the end of the day...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: At the end of the day...:

At the end of the day...

"Ah, yes. Mayors come and mayors go, but the royal ass-kissing remains." - Ben Joravsky, The Reader

In the 30-something years I've been around Chicago's public schools, as an educator, a parent, an education writer, and school reform activist, I've never seen anything like this. Mayor Rahm Emanuel's cynical, politically-motivated move against teachers and their unions dwarfs by comparison, anything his predecessors have done under the name of school reform.

After only being able to pressure and bribe four schools into accepting his