Demise of Public School Education

The Chicago Reader published a story by Ben Joravsky, Do as We Say, Not as We Do about how the fat cats in Central Office led by Chicago Public Schools' new CEO, Ron Huberman (Arne Duncan's successor), is asking for teachers to increase class size, coaches to work for free, sophomores sports to be eliminated, and other belt tightening measures, while increasing salaries for management and other bureaucrats. You won't read this in the Dailies in Chicago, because the press wants the nation to think the Chicago Public Schools is the school system that works, that makes tough decisions, even displacing entire faculties in the name of school improvement and reform.

A few days earlier, a short article in the Chicago Tribune mentioned that Barbara Eason-Watkins, Chief Education Officer of the Chicago Public Schools, is leaving her position to become Superintendent of
Michigan City, IN., public schools. "Her absence will bring to zero the number of top-ranking officials at CPS with classroom experience."

(I've posted this to a couple more educational Nings, because it is important for educators to know how
Chicago style politics works, because it has been exported to the Dept. of Education).

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Demise of Public School Education

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