Waging War on Chicago Workers

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He also pledged war on public education. Begun under former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan, he's now Obama's education secretary, doing for America what he did to Chicago, managing ObamaEd, his Race to the Top scheme linking federal funding to compliance with federal standards. They mandate:

-- open-ended conversion of public schools to charter or for-profit ones;

-- running them by marketplace rules;

-- requiring state laws conform with federal ones;

-- linking teacher pay to student achievement as determined by standardized tests that measure rote memory, not real learning or preparation for higher education;

-- destroying unions and teacher benefits;

-- empowering bureaucrats over parents to decide what's best for their children;

-- creating a two-tiered, class and income-based system, favoring affluent communities over poor ones, denying poor kids real education and a chance for a better future; and

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