Mike Klonsky's Blog

A SmallTalk Salute  goes out to  Karen Lewis and the CTU for forcing Rahm/Claypool's hand and finally getting a serious contract offer...

In Michigan, the idea of a government of, by, and for the people did not apply to poor black cities, and when residents were robbed of th...

Community activists gather outside Saucedo/Telpochcalli to demand that CPS postpone its co-location plan.  I'm told that CPS has pul...

Rahm Emanuel knew what he was doing when he brought educational know-nothing, Forrest Claypool over from the CTA to run the schools. Cl...

Rahm at press conference: "I agree with Karen Lewis..." Karen Lewis "It's just that simple, it's not rocket s...

“Urban Prep has always respected teachers’ right to organize." --   Chief operations officer Evan Lewis  Urban Prep Charter Aca...

April Goggans stood silently holding a sign that said "16 shots and a cover up #LaquanMcDonald #ResignRahm." Others in the room ...

If you want to see what it looks like when a right-wing governor pulls a coup d'etat and appoints corporate managers to supplant ele...

Rauner's  hand-picked State Supt. Tony Smith   called the board's move , "basically the most equitable way of distribution we...

Donald Trump was branded a racist demagogue, a buffoon and a “wazzock” in the British parliament as MPs debated whether to ban the Re...

On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support AFSCME sanitation workers. That evening, he delivered his famo...

Timuel and Zenobia Black with keynoter, Rev Sekou at Chicago Teachers Union King Day Breakfast. The Mayor's MLK Day Breakfast w...

Chicago State students march to save their school from closure .    "Inequality is inevitable; the vast inequality of America tod...

Asking the right questions.  Rahm is pleading ignorance ... Not the top quality you want in the city's top executive. Of course, he...

Funniest Quotables: Fariley "I plan to operate independently. That’s how I operated as a federal prosecutor. I would go off and d...

Dan Webb 1) Will Rahm's pet aldermen finally find their backbones?  "On Monday, that new era of independence was on full disp...

The mayor of San Francisco is sworn in — to boos and arrests Valerie Jarrett on #RahmResign “So I really shouldn’t comment on Chicag...

My good friend at New Trier High School told me that the parents in Winnetka could care less about the PARCC test. He tells me that the hi...

Given all Rahm's recent mea culpas , the one he hasn't made is about his wholesale school closings, mostly in the black community ...