Mike Klonsky's Blog

To be honest, I just don't like this guy.  Needless to say, dumping Rauner is our main goal in next year's race. But until then...

Toni Morrison Toni Morrison This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity...

Our in-studio guest, Bill Ayers.  The Klonsky brothers are back on the air this morning at 11 (CST), live and streaming on Lumpen Radio ...

Malcolm Jenkins Eagles' safety Malcolm Jenkins on tonight's team protest  “Really it’s just to continue to push forward the c...

Do the math... Two years ago, Chicago Public School budgeted for 454 librarians. Last year: 313 librarians. This year? 254. -- WBEZ T...

At yesterday's Let Us Teach rally in Pilsen protesting CPS threats to punish teachers who support parents and boycott useless standard...

I haven't heard much from ’60s ultra-radical turned far-right think-tanker Sol Stern since 2008 when he tried to paint  Barack Obama ...

EAG's Kyle Olson always appears on FOX in front of a faux bookcase. As if... Right-wing loony  Kyle Olson is at it again. You might...

English teacher Kit McCormick, left, discusses Garfield High School teachers' decision to refuse to give the MAP test to their student...

Linda Darling-Hammond While students in the highest-achieving states and districts in the United States do as well as their peers in the hi...

University President Tom Buchanan (not the Gatsby character) had banned Ayers from speaking to a group of students last month, using threat...

Unless of course, it causes "controversy" CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The University of Wyoming has canceled a speech by former 1960s ra...

It's the other McCarthy--just as funny though Andrew McCarthy our favorite commie hunter during the Obama campaign, is back again raisi...

On Sunday, AOL had a story on Obama wanting kids to spend more time in school (it was in the Boston Globe today and I assume many other p...

Memo to Arne Duncan's PR guy and speechwriter, Peter Cunningham . Please tell Arne to stop calling this, possibly the worst global econ...

Republican Party boss says ed plan is "Bolshevik, Maoist, Klonsky-ist, Ayers-ist" For those of you are concerned that Obama's ...

Banning Ayers The banning of Bill Ayers has become a symbol of the collapse of academic freedom, residue from eight years of neocon power a...

Closed parking lots at Georgia Southern Bill Ayers was barred from speaking at Georgia Southern . The lame excuse the university gave wa...

She's in ! “Hilda Solis comes from a working family herself so she understands how the troubled economy is hurting average Americ...