Mike Klonsky's Blog

  Biden was at a candidates event in Houston with National Education Association members in July 2019 when he said: “First thing, as preside...

Chicago daycares and private schools report 495 Covid cases, but numbers don’t tell the whole story: “From April 1 through mid-October, the ...

The topic of education was, unfortunately, MIA from the main convention speeches. It barely came up in either the Kamala Harris or Joe B...

After floating a plan for a mix of in-person and remote learning, the mayor and CPS made the right decision by starting the Chicago schoo...

TOTAL U.S. CASES 3,630,587 74,710 New Cases* TOTAL DEATHS 138,782 918 New Deaths* To be sure, there are decent people, mainly at the l...

Gov. Rick DeSantis orders Florida schools to open despite his state shattering the U.S. record for increased COVID cases. If Florida were ...

In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS. The Dems think it would be bad for them ...

Using federal school rescue funds to feed private school operators. I find myself wishing for a storm in Chicago — an unpredictable, ...

Students at Chicago's Little Village Academy as CPS school ordered closed.  "The system is not really geared to what we need r...

Jim Carroll “In basketball, you can correct your mistakes immediately and beautifully, and in midair.” -- Esquire Betsy DeVos Educat...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel  is so discredited on his education and policing policies that he's been forced out of a re-election bid. B...

Gov. Doug Ducey and his Koch brothers network of "dark money" bazillionaires have set their sights on saving Arizona’s expande...

Trump holds MAGA rally to boost Bost. Trump didn't disappoint his favored right-wing candidate  Mike Bost , R-Murphysboro, who is c...

Sec. of Education Betsy DeVos and her predecessor Arne Duncan, each wanted to buy guns with federal education funds meant for school...

If elected, Lightfoot would become the city’s first openly gay mayor, and the first African-American woman to hold the job. She joins an i...

What Emma Gonzalez said without words. Editorial SPRING IS traditionally a time when schoolchildren come to the nation’s capital to le...

 Father of a Stoneman Douglas shooting victim painting a mural in his son’s honor: abc7.ws/2tAsQPr Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter, Jaim...

Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker in Harlem I didn't know the Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker personally, but I knew of him and admired his work, ...