Mike Klonsky's Blog

Chris Christie and Rahm Emanuel share a laugh during a segment attacking Medicare for All on ABC's "This Week."  MapLigh...

Take your pick. Mussolini, Ivan the Terrible, or Rahm.  An editorial in Friday's Trib calls on CPS to put a turnaround expert...

Cuomo at pro-charter rally in Albany, joins with charter hustlers & hedge-funders in attack on Mayor de Blasio. “It’s very simple a...

Here's Blaine Principal Troy LaRaviere laying it all out on Chicago Tonight . PARTY LINE...You can always tell when the line comes ...

No sooner had Rahm tried to reinvent himself as a gentle, warm and caring ( "I welcome principals' concerns and ideas") mayo...

The Hideout Last night was political junkies' standing-room-only night at the Hideout. CTU President  Karen Jennings Lewis was on st...

EYES ON THE PRIZE... A great point was made by Rev. Jesse Jackson re. Sterling/Bundy racism. Let's not lose sight of where the rea...

Captain Clarion Tweet: "When does that dammed trickle down start, already?" ANON "In theory...

The Hideout We stopped by one of my favorite watering holes, The Hideout, last night to hear the great Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke do ...

Fred Klonsky art The word on Clout Street is that Rahm's own allies and machine pals are distancing themselves from the mayor's...

A good question Georgia parent asks Pres. Obama, "Why don’t private schools adopt your test-based school reforms?" -- Washington ...

Quote from  CPS IG Jim Sullivan   --  "The system has incentivized how performance is evaluated based on data, and much of that data is...

Puerto Rican teachers strike: "No somos criminales, somos maestros." "We're not criminals." The attacks on publi...

Daley doesn't know what he knew. Classic Daley under oath  “I don’t know what I knew.”  --  Sun-Times Diane Ravitch NPR says Ra...

What's Mayor 1% doing in Boston? Why he's the "mystery guest" at Jeb Bush's  Education Forum of course. Throw in his s...

I'm looking forward to next Tuesday, October 15th when a coalition of union and community groups will come together to "Take Back...

“Their decision to modify their promise of a five-year moratorium on school closings is a smack in the face to the parents, teachers and st...

Forget about the great UNO charter school rip-off. That was small potatoes. Forget Rahm's great $150 million basketball arena...

There are still openings for your extra-special child at the new, 9-story, Oman-based Gem Academy (and a gem it is) downtown on S. Water...

The Ward Room's Mark Anderson ( Chicago Needs a Mayoral Challenger. Or Five ) offers up a rather gloomy picture of democratic pos...