Mike Klonsky's Blog

“I believe the Common Core State Standards may prove to be the single greatest thing to happen to public education in America since Brown...

Parents 4 Teachers Jambalaya... We dined at Wishbone last night, along with hundreds of others who came out to honor and support ISAT-...

Florida's test-crazy Gov. Rick Scott and his ed adviser, Michelle Rhee. If you want to see the depths to which Florida's Dept. o...

 “Have you changed the way you measure statistics?” one reporter asked.  “I don’t buy the premise of the question,” Emanuel answered and qu...

Captain Clarion Tweet: "When does that dammed trickle down start, already?" ANON "In theory...

“At least give us one school in the community where AUSL don’t have to take over,” Candace Stigler shouted in the school’s gym. -- WBEZ ...

Sam Spitz met Teddy Williams at a barber shop, and they documented their story in a film, "The Greens." I couldn't be prou...

DID YOU HEAR THAT... The House opened the door ever so slightly Tuesday to stripping Mayor Rahm Emanuel and any of his successors of the s...

The Hideout We stopped by one of my favorite watering holes, The Hideout, last night to hear the great Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke do ...

Fred Klonsky art The word on Clout Street is that Rahm's own allies and machine pals are distancing themselves from the mayor's...

An important new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation highlights the widening gap in opportunity between white and children of color....

Dear Mike, In carefully examining the pension "deal" put forth recently by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, we have found that the pla...

HERE'S A FOLLOW-UP on Friday's post:  Mass school closings 'great success', declares Byrd-Bennett . Catalyst reporters Sa...

SAY JAY!...Travis concedes but the coalition that came close to electing her, meets and  agrees to continue working together for honest an...

Rep. Grijalva Arizona Democrat-Rep. Raúl Grijalva  became the first to support the Network for Public Education’s call for congressiona...

“Guzzardi was able to walk the district for four years, didn’t have to work, didn’t have to do anything.” -- J oe "Big Daddy" B...

“None of the negative predictions have come true. In fact the opposite has happened.” -- Byrd-Bennett How do we know Chicago's mass...

Gym is being honored by the White House next week. (ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer) Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly...

No vote was taken yesterday on the bill to abolish the state's ALEC-initiated Charter Commission. Maybe today. Word is that we need 3 m...

Kamryn (left) and her pal Delaney.  A SMALL TALK SALUTE goes out to Caprock Charter School third-grader Kamryn Renfro  who had shaved he...