Mike Klonsky's Blog

Hey Arne! Please explain this DOE purchase order ? h/t Ken Libby

Tribune Columnist Mary Schmich Anyone who watches the march with an open mind will see that these young people aren't aliens. They'r...

Arne Duncan is still talking that civil rights talk . Only now he's moved the setting over from Robt. E. Lee H.S. in Montgomery, Alab...

I very much appreciate the support from President Obama for the decisions we have made regarding Central Falls High School. Though these dec...

At least, when Gov. Quinn , announced he was cutting the state's education budget by $1.3 billion , forcing the firing of possibly thous...

When the right-wing Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli ( left ) heard Arne Duncan mention the words, "civil rights," he frea...

dan wasserman cartoon

It seems like everyone in school reform is talking the civil rights talk these days. "Education is the civil rights issue of our time...

Urban Prep Academy is a small all-boys charter high school in Chicago's African-American community of Englewood. It's run by a non...

Senator from Harlem, critic of privatization “If there are people fleeing from something, it is cause for alarm,” he said in an interview in...

The First Symposium of the Deborah Meier Institute Featuring Michelle Fine CUNY Pedro Noguera NYU John Ryan PRESIDENT EMERITUS INDIANA UNIVE...

An independent voice First there was the stirring of the sleepy teachers unions in response to the mass firings of teachers and staff at Ce...

Central Falls teachers and their supporters rallied in West Warwick on Thursday ahead of a meeting of Rhode Island's Board of Regents f...

Last vestige of democratic school reform threatened The deadline for Chicago's Local School Council candidates to register to run this ...

According to this morning's Times , it looks like Supt. Gallo and the Central Falls board are in retreat. After first refusing to even m...

Diane Ravitch's new book echoes many of the views in our own 2008 book, Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society...

Union leaders say they are "appalled" by Obama's cheer leading of Central Falls teacher firings. Even though they say they are...

It's Dr. Seuss' birthday today. I'm sure if the good doctor was in Central Falls, R.I. yesterday and heard Obama's pile-on s...

If there was any doubts that the mass firings of Central Falls H.S. teachers came straight from the top, Obama put them to rest yesterday wh...