Interesting times in Chicago. Frightening too. Can the nation’s third largest school district survive?
Mike Klonsky reports that Mayor Rahm, who does not like public schools, has proposed a 40% budget cut.
It is tough to teach amidst so much instability, austerity, and hostility.
Meanwhile, Blaine Elementary School’s dissident and suspended principal, Troy LaRaviere, was elected as president of the Chicago Principal and Adobistrators Association. Troy was suspended and may soon be fired, despite winning many awards. He has been an outspoken critic of Mayor Rahm.
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I congratulate Mr. LaRaviere on earning the respect and support of his peers and the mean-spirited enmity of those in mad dog pursuit of $tudent $ucce$$.
He can wear both as badges of honor.
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The people of Chicago would have been better off if Rahm had become a ballet dancer. From his Wikipedia page,”Rahm was encouraged by his mother to take ballet lessons and is a graduate of the Evanston School of Ballet,[16] as well as a student of The Joel Hall Dance Center, where his children later took lessons.[17] He won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet,[18] but turned it down to attend Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts school with a strong dance program.”
Mayor 1%’s photo, at the DFER fund-raising site, shows a man who would be comfortable with the egregious behavior of his hedge fund friends.
Teachers were quietly rooting for Troy. He still can not walk into a CPS building until the ISBE hearing is done.
On the other hand, how can schools go from $4,088 per student to $2,495 ? That almost insures CTU contract grievances – oh wait – there is no contract. Claypool is playing the same game as Rauner is with AFSCME. And Claypool gets to decide which part of the contract he gets to honor and which part he gets to ignore.
Chicago just may become the next Detroit. Starve them, they fail, close them, give it to charters, wash the hands from all the ‘public’ and let the ‘private but we want public funds’ run education.
Or is this just a ploy…take the children as hostage and see what the lawmakers will do now. They really don’t care because their own children never saw the inside of a public school.
In a populist revolt, the richest 0.1% and their kids will learn a life lesson.
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________________________________ Von: Diane Ravitchs blog Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Mai 2016 00:35:10 An: grupe1@hotmail.de Betreff: [New post] Chicago: Rahm Proposes 40% Budget Cut; Critic Troy LaRaviere Wins Election
dianeravitch posted: “Interesting times in Chicago. Frightening too. Can the nation’s third largest school district survive? Mike Klonsky reports that Mayor Rahm, who does not like public schools, has proposed a 40% budget cut. It is tough to teach amidst so “
I don’t understand why states don’t have any money for public schools. Illinois has 6.6% unemployment. If they can’t fund public schools (or public universities) now what happens in the next recession when it goes up to 9?
It’s like public education never recovered from the financial crash.
Shouldn’t they have more revenue with higher employment? That rule just doesn’t apply to public education anymore? Why are they still cutting education funding? They’re not cutting anything else.
Pennsylvania unemployment is 5.3% yet they can’t keep high schools in Erie open or fund Philadelphia schools? They had to have cut or redirected revenue. It’s like public schools ALONE are still in the depths of the recession.
You can’t help but feel this is a deliberate decision by lawmakers. What they say about the economy doesn’t match their claims of an inability to fund public education.
Administrators, not Adobistrators. I think Adobistrators are actually office staff from Lord of the Rings.
No, clearly its an Adobe product placement ad from our Internet Overlords.
Upgrade now, Earthlings, you will be assimilated!
Adminimals is now the correct term to use when referring to public school administrators.
It’s a compound word made up of administrate, animal and minimal (thinking).
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
Chiara – Without a federal bailout Illinois is doomed.
…but, but, but – all of the states going under have money for charters. How is it possible there is no money for public schools, but there is money for charters?
How is the solution to close pubic schools, and open charter schools? How is the solution to hand pubic schools over to charter managers?
How is the solution to close public schools, and use voucher monies on religious schools or pretend “academies?”
If there is no money, there is no money, no?
How do we even get to a point where educating our children isn’t a priority?
Oh, the wealthy will take care of their kids’ educations, and the rest of the population can eat cake.
In my view, the charters will also go whenever the money game moves on. There is no “center” to educational reform; a deregulated test-based school reform simply opened up access to educational financing. Any who wish to get their part of the massive tax/governmental/philanthrocapitalist funding will simply move in wherever they can, suck up whatever capital is temporarily available, and move on when it runs out. Schools and education are only accidental possibilities in this game, and they both mean less and less each year that the game is played.
You go, Troy LaRiviere! You are a true hero of public education.