WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Trumbull Elementary student Daqueeta Holland, 10, left, sobs as she and friend Dyanna Davis, 10, lament that they'll be separated next year when Trumbull closes. (Chicago Tribune)

CTU Pres. Karen Lewis

“Performance has creeped back in the conversation. Every time you look up, they’ve changed the bar on what this is going to be about.” -- Sun-Times

Ald. Bob Fioretti

"I think they set them all up for failure. And then what they set up even worse was the communities and the parents and the faculties and the administration against each other." -- Ward Room

Cook County Board Pres. Toni Preckwinkle

Preckwinkle

"I don't know how the superintendent can say he's going to keep all the kids safe. I don't know what possessed him to say that." -- Reader 

Melissa Harris-Perry 

Now I  know there has been an outcry from communities,  in part because the CReATE Research Brief on school closures, and there's very little reason to think these kids will get into higher performing schools.  -- MSNBC

Peter Cappelli, Wharton School of Management

What employers are complaining they can’t find now are not things the schools can deliver. They want work-based skills. They want the kinds of things that you can’t learn in a classroom. How do you manage a team of people? How do you implement this particular software? And we shouldn’t expect the schools to try to do that. It’s not very efficient. It’s much easier to teach somebody as an apprentice in the field. -- Larry Cuban's Blog