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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Happy fourth Sunday. | Fred Klonsky

Happy fourth Sunday. | Fred Klonsky:

Happy fourth Sunday.

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The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has just placed a six-foot-tall sculpture outside Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago that says “REAL FAKE” in metallic gold, uppercase letters.


My drawings from this week’s blog:

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Morris KightMITCH
JOAN KRAMER




Having lived and worked under a flawed system of school accountability institutionalized by the Bush administration in 2002, and wholly embraced by Rahm Emanuel when he took control of Chicago Public Schools in 2011, I find his latest backward decision regarding Chicago Police Department reform profoundly hypocritical. Mayor Emanuel’s rhetoric on school accountability is centered on one key concept: consequences.

As a teacher and principal in CPS under Rahm Emanuel, the “accountability and Happy fourth Sunday. | Fred Klonsky: