Mike Klonsky documents the disastrous history of school reform in Chicago. It started when Secretary of Education Bill Bennett came to town and said Chicago's schools were the worst in the nation. One reform followed another: Paul Vallas, Arne Duncan, Rahm Emanuel....and a legacy of failure. Rahm closed more public schools than any public official in history (not counting Hurricane Katrina). He loves to turn neighborhood high schools into selective-admission schools. This promotes gentrification and disperses the neighborhood kids. His current plan is to do this to Hancock High School: Read how they do it in Chicago because they are doing this in the 15,880 districts in 50 states while the public is fed lies, and the public schools are privitized. The road to opportunity ends when this happens. |
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)