The death by a thousand cuts, that is the story of “school reform” in Chicago. It seems that no one in the Mayor’s office cares about the children in the public schools.
Mike Klonsky tells the sad story of the shutdown of the Children and Family Benefits Unit, a small group that drew in more money than it spent, all to help the neediest children.
Does society have a more sacred trust than the care, feeding, and education of children?
What are Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor Bruce Rauner thinking?
They should be called out, every day, for their neglect of their greatest responsibility.
The fact that they closed a unit that took in more money then it spent is the final evidence we need to reveal what their end goal is. The autocratic, often fraudulent and inferior, for profit at any cost corporate public education reform movement is NOT about education. It is all about money and the power money buys.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson
We know who those tyrants are. We read about them almost everyday as they spend millions to achieve their agenda of greed and thirst for power over other people’s choices.
I do not think it is possible to reason with obvious psychopaths that are incapable of empathy or compromise.
The money quote: “The autocratic, often fraudulent and inferior, for profit at any cost corporate public education reform movement…”
I might add that this ethos begins in the deep rot of Duncan/King’s Dept of Education. DoEd under their leadership turned its back on all children and public schools.
King was in Nashville this week promoting charter chains & bragging about all the federal billion$ he’s gifted to them to provide “equitable opportunity”
http://www.ed.gov/news/media-advisories/us-education-secretary-john-b-king-jr-speak-national-charter-schools-conference-nashville-tennessee
While King is bragging about equity, his dept of ed is ignoring the student loan crisis as millions drown in debt peonage to predatory debt collectors.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36631-who-is-getting-rich-off-the-1-3-trillion-student-debt-crisis
My mother used to say a fish rots from the head down.
Lloyd Lofthouse: your first sentence is a telling indictment of the rheephorm mantra that they “do more with less.”
Any other things, it is obvious that they couldn’t stand the “bad example” that unit set for those in zealous pursuit of $tudent $ucce$$.
Thank you for your comments.
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What is happening in Chicago is symptomatic of what is happening in many cities and states; Chicago’s tactics are particularly reprehensible. The charter industry is getting increased funding to the detriment of local neighborhood schools. All policymakers including Obama should be called out for this disinvestment in our public schools.