| The continuing story of the demise of public education by the simple process of removing the professional teachers. See how it is done in Chicago, now that NYC and Los Angeles have lost their veteran teachers. Following Arne Duncan's failed "turnaround" strategy, the Chicago Board of Education announced that it would fire every single adult in three of Chicago ??s schools (McNair, Gresham and Dvorak Elementary Schools) and hand over management of the schools to the Academy for Urban School Leadership ?? a politically clouted private management group tied to appointed Board President David Vitale. Calling this practice ??Turnaround, ? the Board claims it will help students. But studies show otherwise. This is an attack on Black schools that continues the assault carried out by CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett last year, when she closed fifty schools (claiming they were the last closings ! |
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