Editor’s Note: At the present moment a small, but passionate group of community members on Chicago’s South Side are well into their third week of a hunger strike aimed at Mayor Rahm Emanuel in an attempt to get him to… Read More ›
Chicago Public Schools
A Modest Appraisal
On The Occasion of The Chicago Public School Board’s Glorious Disemboweling of Fifty Particularly Bothersome Pieces of Educational Detritus. I must say, it has warmed the cockles of my imperceptibly beating and pacemakered heart to see the musty nether regions… Read More ›
Chicago Teachers Learn How To Hold ‘Em…And Possibly Fold ‘Em
A couple of years ago, I was interviewed for a position at a public school in Cincinnati. The job was some bizarre franken-mesh of an English teacher and an IT guy that sounded as if it had been pulled out… Read More ›