Mike Klonsky's Blog

Don Rose tells us what it was like when Daley's old man ran the city and Benjamin Willis ran the schools for him. The new schools were...

Look who's in denial Gregg Toppo in USA Today writes that TFA teachers are being brought in to replace laid-off experienced teachers in...

They did it without firing teachers, closing the school, or privatizing the management. Principal Ron Montoya of Valley High School tells t...

The Old Testament story has Abraham bargaining with God over the destruction of Sodom. God says he will not destroy the city if Abe can prod...

With his usual disingenuous I'm-just-saying innuendo, Russo launches a get-to-the-bottom-of-this investigation ( "AKA's too p...

Here's how the supt. selection game is now played in urban school districts. Don't tell the public. A gloomy Huff poster says scho...

"It's a good thing..."-- No it's not Martha Stewart Reason # 437 why (sorry, Arne) Mayor Daley shouldn't be running t...

National Journal Online asks its teacher-free panel of experts, what to do to close the achievement gap ? The response from most is the usu...

Taking the public out of public schools If it's broke, fix it, right? Only what happens when the people who are supposed to fix it are ...

Tom VanderArk , as much as anyone, helped set the Gates Foundation's education program on its current tragic course. It was VDA who, bef...

Mayor-for-life wannabe Bloomberg is rapidly becoming the poster boy for those who question Arne Duncan's mantra of mayoral control of ...

Arne Duncan has $4.35 billion (spread out over 50 states and several years) in Race-To-The-Top money to "incentivize" (is that ...

Arne says lifting charter school caps, closing thousands of schools, firing teachers, etc... is ed reform's "moon shot." LOL.

The report criticizes supt.'s "lack of foresight in the often hurried implementation of new initiatives" as well as Rhee'...

Tom Hoffman doesn't mince any words with Commissioner Gist over the destruction of small schools in Providence. The work done in small...

Career pathways The House Appropriations Committee has put $135 million into the pot for Career Pathways . While this may not sound like m...

Latest from inside Daley/Duncan's school Renaissance At the time, then-CPS chief Arne Duncan insisted the selective enrollment program ...

That's how the N.Y. post describes a proposed community-based training program for parents, at NYU's Metropolitan Center for Urban ...

The "turnaround" business “States will have lots of money they have to spend quickly,” he said. “Providers could just hang out the...

Mayoral Out of Control News During last week’s radio address , Mayor Bloomberg sounded the alarm: “they want to have this slush fund...