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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Schools Matter: Rahm's Corporate Pals Running CPS School Closings and CPS School Openings

Schools Matter: Rahm's Corporate Pals Running CPS School Closings and CPS School Openings:

Rahm's Corporate Pals Running CPS School Closings and CPS School Openings

After years of malignant neglect by the Daley Machine in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel is now in charge of completing the school corporatization plan that has fully taken shape since 2000. Emanuel last year appointed the former head of the corporate welfare outfit, the Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL), to head his covey of appointed toadies on the CPS "Board of Education." From the Tribune:
Launched by a reform-minded venture capitalist in 2001, AUSL has always enjoyed a close relationship with CPS. But never more so than under Emanuel, who selected a former AUSL top executive to oversee CPS' finances and named AUSL's previous board chairman as president of CPS' Board of Education.
AUSL is another of the total compliance lockdown school designs created to culturally neuter urban children,