Mike Klonsky's Blog

The Sun-Times lays it out perfectly: Consider this sequence of events: In October 2012, Byrd-Bennett was hand-picked by Mayor Rah...

Supt. McCarthy goes all Che Guevara on us. "I know what needs to happen. It's clear to me as anything on earth. It's a sys...

City Council Black Caucus chairman Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th), at podium, and members on Monday call for the firing of Chicago Police Supt...

"No Confidence" in Duncan/King. Jeanette Deutermann, Public school parent and founder of Long Island Opt Out “Throughout...

NYSUT delegates applaud following the no confidence vote against Commissioner John King on April  5, 2014. ( Photo byAnnette Konoske-Gr...

So just before announcing his resignation as Sec. of Education, Arne Duncan dropped $157M on privately-run charters. $42.2M of it is co...

Arne Duncan has turned the D.O.E. into little more than a feeding trough for even the most corrupt and unaccountable charter school oper...

The Cone of Uncertainty We were heading out for D.C. this morning and then on to the Bethany Beach. We turned around. Lucky we chec...

At yesterday's board meeting ... Parent Wendy Katten of Raise you hand says, "My son's school lost four positions, they have n...

As the grandparent of a CPS student with special needs, my message to the mayor is -- if it's a battle you want, it's a battle yo...

Mercedes Schneider America needs less of Pearson. A lot less.  --  Deutsch29 NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia “I don’t know anyone wh...

"The vast majority of aldermen oppose the opening of new charters this year, while we face a massive budget crisis and no path to ade...

Gen. Tata with his pal Palin.  Remember Brigadier Gen. Tony Tata? He was fast friends with Sarah Palin and  Michelle Rhee' s seco...

At last night's Progressive Caucus community forum in Logan Square, Caucus members and community groups spoke out against Rahm's a...

Rauner and Smith Unfunded mandates. I hate 'em. Schools and school districts hate 'em. It didn't take our demagogic, educ...

Strike over. Struggle continues. Aisha Wade-Bey “We do have some other ways to continue to make sure we get this high school in our ...

Fred Klonsky Good riddance to  Tim Cawley, t he very worst of Rahm's army of CPS bureaucrats who's gone from Number 2 honcho un...

Test results for IL's 2,000,000 students have plummeted to their lowest point in a decade. They purport to show nearly 70% of them faili...

"We've been writing and meeting with ISBE officials for over two years to stop this madness. We've told them that our technolo...

This afternoon, I was with members of Chicago's Jewish community, who marched to City Hall to voice support for the Dyett Hunger str...