Mike Klonsky's Blog

Don Moore from Designs for Change tells us that Rep. Cynthia Soto's House Bill 363, mandating clear criteria for any more school clo...

I don't think so The Wonkster at Gotham Gazette, "Public Schools, Private Money," tells us how the game is played by Bloomb...

Banning Ayers The banning of Bill Ayers has become a symbol of the collapse of academic freedom, residue from eight years of neocon power a...

How the hedge-fund "reformers" bought Sharpton Thanks to Juan Gonzalez at the Daily News ( " Rev. Al Sharpton's $500G li...

In honor of Eli Broad calling me "Blonsky," (I know, I just can't let it go) Sec. of State Hilary Clinton has decided to r...

Chicago Democratic political strategist Don Rose takes a tough line on Obama/Duncan ed policies. His column appeared in the Sun-Times and t...

H/t to skoolboy for finding this great quote from D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee (how the hell did I miss this one?). Rhee says that her Sa...

but can't get his facts straight In the last 10 minutes of this interview , Chicago's new schools CEO Ron Huberman, comes off as a ...

16,000 charters? Philanthro-capitalist, short-seller, and former AIG boss, Eli Broad , is interviewed in Forbes Magazine : In the last 10...

Bad news for public schools and teachers It appears that the DOE is now operating on the Bill Gates Doctrine. A troika of Gates, Arne Dunca...

The students get it Students at one of Chicago's elite selective-enrollment high schools, Walter Payton College Pre p, are asking tough ...

McDonough School #6 Legacy of slavery If you follow developments in post-Katrina New Orleans, as I do, you will come upon reports from schoo...

Mark Bergin at World Magazine ( "The Schools that Arne Built" ) gives us the two sides of Arne Duncan. There's Duncan the pr...

I missed Wednesday's board meeting wish I had been in town for it. 800 people packed the meeting as the protests continue to mount again...

Racist ideologue, Charles "Bell Curve" Murray wants to replace the "equality premise" with his "human nature"...

I'm still reeling from Eli Broad's letter of "correction" to Small Talk. I'm worried that he may actually own the bl...

Chicago's education 'miracle' Chicago's Renaissance 2010 education "miracle" paved Arne Duncan's road to the...

Remember my little tiff with Eli Broad's communications secretary, Karen Denne ? Remember how she couldn't even get my name right? ...

Like many of us these days, I spend way too much time and energy in the non-participatory sport of Arne Duncan -watching. Like most progress...

Results are the same I suppose, as long as Bill & Melinda Gates keep fronting the money, Rand will keep doing studies comparing charter ...