Mike Klonsky's Blog

Dear Friends and Comrades For many years I have written a Mayday letter as an act of remembering and a contribution to keeping hope aliv...

Chicago teachers are currently reviewing the curriculum for a new districtwide course on the history of the disgraced former Chicago Poli...

Today's Washington Post reports that Trump will sign an executive order requiring Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to study how the fe...

Mayor Duncan?  Yikes! I woke up at 2 a.m. in a cold sweat. In my horrific dream, it was 2019 and  Arne Duncan had somehow become the ...

Tens of thousands of marchers for science packed the National Mall Saturday Charles Cappell, sociologist and retired NIU prof  “It seem...

DeVos and Weingarten at Van Wert H.S.  AFT Pres . Randi Weingarten seems convinced that she can show Trump's Ed. Sec. Betsy DeVos ...

Eve Ewing (top) and Sarah Chambers. Tomorrow on Hitting Left, our in-studio guest will be Eve Ewing.  Eve is a sociologist of education...

File under #Transparency #Accountability Rahm Emanuel met with Betsy DeVos a week ago. But we still don't know what the meeti...

UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISINVESTMENT by the city and its corporations are destroying neighborhoods and pushing thousands of African-American f...

Thousands crowd Daley Plaza in Chicago, demanding Trump reveal his taxes.  Shane Bauer Militias, alt-right, nazis etc won today in B...

Jose Rico joins us for conversation about Chicago schools and immigration tomorrow on Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers at 11AM 1...

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -- Mike Tyson In yesterday's Tribune op-ed piece , Arne Dunca...

Vallas/Solomon/Synesi connection was ignored when he ran with Quinn.  The Watch Dogs In a series of letters to Louisiana officials who...

“If you need ** ANYTHING** let me know. A cocktail, some laughing, a quick run to the casino, we’re here for you!!!” -- Vranas to Byrd-Be...

Rahm uses Chief Ed Officer Janice Jackson to push his latest school closing scheme.  Rahm's latest scheme calls for the closing of a...

  "Chicago Public Schools has one of the highest suspension and expulsion rates and the disproportionate use of suspensions." ...

The family tree Betsy DeVos' appointment as Sec. of Education had less to do with her competency, adroitness, or knowledge of the f...

“It is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation.” -- LA Times  Bernie Sanders ...

Rep. Will Guzzardi calling for limits on the expansion of privately-run charters in IL The charter hustlers at INCS are in panic mode...

Munger Questions -- What the hell is a "deputy governor" and how many does IL really need? Don't we elect a Lt. Gov.?  Ho...