Mike Klonsky's Blog

Okay, now that I'm done FBing about #convfefe, I can get down to more serious business -- revolution . It seems a revolution has taken...

Teachers at Passages Charter unionize and win their first contract.  Rahm Emanuel asked if Clinton should run again. "It's no...

Marching through the rain yesterday through Chicago Loop.  Visitors in town yesterday from the west coast were awed by this city's p...

I was part of the large crowd that packed the City Council chambers yesterday in support of Ald. John Arena's  affordable  housing in...

Teacher Patrick J. Kearney You’ve now been the Secretary of Education for a few months and I have to say, we’ve moved from being freaked ...

In the most expensive school board election in history, billionaire Eli Broad just bought himself a school system. Insuring, for the...

Rahm considering taxing "high net-worth individuals". What a concept!  Just to prove that I'm not a Rahm hater, I'll g...

"President Trump, please don't fire Sean Spicer"-- CNN Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) to Howard University students  “Yo...

Less than a week after Pres. Trump threatened to cut off funds for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), his ed secretary...

Ryan comes to Harlem It looks like Eva Moskowitz's Success Charter Academy has become the photo-op, stop-off point favorite for Repu...

Bethune-Cookman students petition “With all the facts provided, why on earth would Bethune-Cookman University invite Secretary DeVos t...

Graffiti at Howard University criticizing its president for meeting with Trump. It only makes sense that a day after gutting health insu...

Tomorrow on Hitting Left, I will be missing my co-host, brother Fred, who is off to New York where he's taking part in a 40-mile bi...

I'm not big on submarine movies. I watched Das Boot on a flight to Europe once and between the depth charges on the screen and the ai...

Point well-made by Raise Your Hand's Wendy Katten in today's email... On Friday, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara By...

Sunday morning news panel. (Fred Klonsky) Barbara Byrd-Bennett "I ought to be punished." -- Sun-Times Donald Trump “I ...

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 ...