Mike Klonsky's Blog

Watch Gov. Christie snort at public school mom who asks why he's cutting public school funding, "It's none of your business....

The school-to-prison pipeline Nathan Bootz , Superintendent of Ithaca Public Schools asks Michigan's Tea Party Gov. Snyder to make hi...

But 40 million Americans on food stamps may pay the price Congrats to Pres. Obama , Pelosi and the Dems for passing the Edujobs Bill des...

"We had to open things up and move some things around."-- Mayor Fenty WaPo's Bill Turque reports that D.C. district crats h...

Well, I was looking for some way to give Arne Duncan credit for something good. You know me. I always try to be balanced in my criticism of...

His lips say 'yes,' but... Obama's version of school reform includes more time on task-- longer school days & school year. B...

Here's the latest from the DOE. Non-profit school reform groups will be eligible for federal grants as large as $50 million each. Arne ...

Obama's ed team, led by Arne Duncan , is being pushed and pulled by the different factions inside the Democratic Party and out. So far, ...

More bad news for Klein's Leadership Academy ...An analysis by The New York Times of the city’s signature report-card system shows that...

On Sept. 3, 2008, I was posting from the back of a school bus headed from the south side of Chicago to the wealthy suburbs of the North Sho...

Sam Dillon in Tuesday's NYT , "Education Standards Likely to See Toughening" gives us some clues about the coming battle ov...

This headline in the current issue of Forbes says a lot about the current state of American democracy: " Ivy Leaders: Members of Amer...

A Conservative flip-flop ? Right-wing think-tankers Petrilli, Finn and Hess , had hoped to starve the public schools into accepting their d...

Schools to lose billions in exchange for 3 Republican votes? To most of us, Rush Limbaugh is just another laughable, far-right, racist, dr...

Now I hear that John McCain and the Limbaugh Party are holding education funding hostage in the stimulus package debate. Better contact y...

"I just love teaching kids, and I came to fight for our jobs and our students," said Francis, a second-year teacher who, at the mo...

Republican congressmen and conservative think tanks have rallied behind Rush Limbaugh and have mounted a media campaign to oppose Barack ...