Tuesday, March 19, 2013

UPDATE: Amazing video! + The continuing saga of Persepolis. CPS’s black eye. + And the winner is… + Ten years after. | Fred Klonsky

Ten years after. | Fred Klonsky:


Amazing video! Parent Wendy Katten questions CPS Chief Administrative Officer. Gets no answers.

From Tim Furman’s blog:
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Wendy Katten, founder of Raise Your Hand For Illinois Public Education, questions Tim Cawley, Chief Administrative Officer for Chicago Public Schools, on March 19, 2013, at CPS headquarters. Cawley came to CPS through the politically connected Academy for Urban Schools where he was a finance person. Prior to that he lead Morotorla’s North American cell phone business.
I’m not sure when I last saw a Motorola cell phone in North America. So think about that for a moment.
Cawley has no education experience whatsoever.
Cawley has no answers about who is making the decisions about which schools are going to 


The continuing saga of Persepolis. CPS’s black eye.

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A Chicago reporter covers Lane Tech student protest.
Publisher’s Weekly:

On Monday morning, a student-organized sit-in at Lane Tech, a magnet high school on Chicago’s north side protesting the decision to restrict access to Persepolis didn’t take place in the school library as planned, despite prior approval from the school’s librarian. Hundreds of students were locked out of the library and forced to crowd the hallways. According to Chicago retired teacher Fred Klonsky, who blogs about Chicago’s public education scene, CPS officials were on site Monday, but the school principal was absent.

And Monday evening, author Arundhati Roy, speaking at Northwestern University, referred to the ongoing controversy, saying, according to Chicago 



Ten years after.

We were driving back from a demonstration of hundreds of thousands that had gathered on the Washington DC mall. Hundreds of thousands more had protested in cities all around the world. Over a million people in the streets.
“No war.”
Ten years ago.
As we drove home to Chicago I read aloud the report of the protest in the NY Times to the others in the car.
The Times began their report with, “There are two superpowers in the world this morning: The United States and world public opinion.”
We were elated.
Like so much of what The Times wrote about Iraq and the lead up to the war that started ten years ago today, 


And the winner is…

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Remember all entries must have been a tweet, haiku or limerick.
The decision of the judge (that’s me) is final.
And the winner of the one million visits contest is:
Matthew Tolzmann:
ISAT and sat and sat for days
ISAT and sat some more
I marked more B’s and C’s than A’s
To get a better score!
Matthew: send me a mailing address for the shirt.
Thanks to the other creative entries.
Francis:
Roar, verbal cannon
Let thoughts and fellings explode
Words will win the war
Glen Brown: