Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mike Klonsky: If You're Looking for Change, Rahm Is Not Your Guy

Mike Klonsky: If You're Looking for Change, Rahm Is Not Your Guy
Mike Klonsky

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Read More: Chicago Public Schools , Mayor Daley , Miguel Del Valle , Rahm Emanuel , Wasserstein Perella ,Chicago News

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If you liked the scandal-ridden Daley machine, you will love Rahm Emanuel as mayor. And why not? Daley and Rahm both move in the same inner circle politically and financially. Rahm's campaign offers voters little more than a continuation of Daley's policies and management style, including management and control over the city's public schools.

Bill Clinton's Chicago fund-raising visit to pump the Emanuel campaign ("there's no better role model") highlighted both Daley's and Rahm's connections to the same family of political and financial interests. Candidate Miguel del Valle was quickest to point out the fallout from Rahm's brief term on the board of directors of Freddie Mac. it was Clinton who appointed Emanuel to the board in 2000. Rahm earned $320,000 for his 14 months of service, but

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Casting former chancellor as villain, students’ play goes on | GothamSchools

Casting former chancellor as villain, students’ play goes on | GothamSchools

Casting former chancellor as villain, students’ play goes on

by Anna Phillips

A play written by Queens high school students finally came to the stage last Friday, after igniting controversy for its criticism of former Chancellor Joel Klein.

Administrators at Jamaica High School, which the city plans to close next year, initially banned the play. They then reversed their decision, permitting students to put on their adaptation of the Greek tragedy “Antigone.”

In the play, Klein assumes the role of King Creon, who in the original story favors one brother over another and refuses to give the one he dislikes a proper burial. But in the students’ play, the two brothers are Jamaica High School and the schools that now share its building. The adaptation’s authors are clear: Jamaica is the unpopular one.

In this scene, the prophet Tiresias comes to visit Klein to advise him against closing the school:

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Sacramento City Unified School Officials Among Hundreds Gathered for Budget Workshop - Rosemont, CA Patch

Sacramento City Unified School Officials Among Hundreds Gathered for Budget Workshop - Rosemont, CA Patch

Sacramento City Unified School Officials Among Hundreds Gathered for Budget Workshop

Informational session in Sacramento provides officials from various school districts a glimpse at the potential impacts of Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2011-12 budget proposal.

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Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2011-12 budget proposalcontains a big “if” for K-12 schools, who may have to issue layoff notices before they know how much funding they’ll receive from the state, a school consulting and advocacy firm said Friday in Sacramento.

School Services of California, Inc., held a Governor’s Budget Workshop to explain the impacts of Brown’s budget proposal, which provides nearly flat funding to K-12 schools, as long as voters in June choose to extend a 2009 tax hike.

If the tax extension fails or doesn’t make it to the ballot at all, schools would lose $330 per student, presenters said. If it is approved, they would still lose about $19 per student. Brown’s proposal also does not include a cost of living adjustment.

“I think the governor has done a good job of providing a path where K-12 will be protected,” said Ron Bennett, president of School Services of California, Inc. “K-12 has not been protected in past years, but this governor has provided a path where it would be protected–but it’s dependent on the voters stepping up and saying, ‘That’s a

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