Mike Klonsky's Blog

"I misspoke" How do you know if the Civic Committee's Ty Fahner is lying? Notice his snout is moving. First, the man my...

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. It's not only the low point of this once-progressive governor's career, it is c...

Thanks to some of the many anonymous commentators on the Clemente story for the factual corrections; i.e., the number of principals at Cleme...

How do we know? Ty Fahner told us so Fahner Under pressure from hundreds of thousands of people (including me) who made phone calls and ...

HUBERMAN: We're continuing to learn from what's worked well in Renaissance 2012…2010!...and what we need to improve on… ambi: tape ...

Like thieves in the night, Illinois Gov. Quinn and machine-boss Mike Madigan , heisted more than $100 billion from the teachers' pensio...

What ever happened to accountability? As I have been pointing out for the past few months, the words Renaissance 2010 are rarely even utter...

Toast The Chicago grapevine is buzzing about CEO Ron Huberman's latest central office house-cleaning. Friday he dropped the axe on his ...

Mayoral out of control In response to the Civic Committee's charge that Chicago test score increases were the product of changes...

"Suppress it!" I have received more confirmation on Tuesday's post , re. attempts by the Civic Committee and the Renaissance...

On the heels of the Civic Committee 's report, calling Chicago school reform an "abysmal" failure, Mayor Daley called a pr...

Whispers over at the Consortium on Chicago School Research are all about attempts by members of the Civic Committee and the Renaissance Sc...

In the new National Journal Online , Arne Duncan continues spreading the Chicago miracle manure around. He's still insisting that, in C...

It's an illusion The stark conclusion: Nothing that Paul Vallas or Arne Duncan did in the last 15 years has had any significant effect...

Sorry, I couldn't get the embedded video of Rick Arruza's interview with R. Eden Martin to play here. But you can watch it at WTTW...

The Sun-Times finally notices the Civic Committee's report that discredited the past ten years of Chicago school reform. Kudos to the e...

Catherine Gewertz posts today at Edweek's High School Connections blog re. the Chicago Civic Committee's back-stabbing of Arne Dun...

He toiled faithfully on their plantation for 10 years before going to D.C. to serve as Obama's education chief. He did all their bidding...