Mike Klonsky's Blog

Austan Goolsbee Before he leaves us, our lame duck Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking a few parting shots at the unions and progressives who ...

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...

Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne ...

Trump's Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos  is determined to use the Dept. of Education's federal grant program as a weapon against public ...

Harold died 30 years ago.  To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. --  Ella Wheeler Wilcox ("Prote...

Stanford researcher Sean Reardon conflated test scores with learning.  I don't trust meteoric rises in student test scores or gradua...

UIC Prof. Josh Radinsky  "We're getting the (CReATE) band back together... Vouchers or vouchers by any other name is just onc ...

The Washington Post reports that neo-fascist, white supremacist Steve Bannon, Pres. Trump’s former chief strategist (replacing the recen...

Duncan & King As N.Y.'s Education Commissioner, John King's top-down imposition of corporate-style reform policies, includi...

IL legislature violates the Constitution. I doubt that Rahm Emanuel, Cardinal Cupich, nor any of those legislators in Springfield who ...

CPAA Pres. Troy LaRaviere on Hitting Left says Rahm forced CPS principals to lobby for school funding/vouchers bill.  If public schools ...

First, let me thank the good Cardinal for setting things straight. There was no arm-twisting necessary when it came to getting Democrats ...

Democratic House Speaker Mike Madigan, left,visits with House Republican Leader Jim Durkin after the education funding bill passed.  ...

‘Taking action is the best cure for despair.’   Rebecca Solnit A crisis, says one dictionary, is “the point in the progress of a dise...

School "choice" groups have never been able to present a unified front. As with any reform movement, divisions are bound to o...