Sunday, November 18, 2012

School Tech Connect: Rogers Park Is Awake

School Tech Connect: Rogers Park Is Awake:


Rogers Park Is Awake





The great Jesse Sharkey dropped by Sullivan High School last week to meet community activists gathered in Sullivan's auditorium and describe the current threat facing neighborhood schools.

The people of the city, and soon the legislature too, are about to be bombarded with messages about half-empty schools, as if that phenomenon were not part of a planned strategy to privatize the schools. They won't mention the other half of the equation, which is that the "half empty" schools are populated with overcrowded classrooms. 

This business would never stand in the suburbs or downstate, and I hope