I never really cared for comic book revisionism. When they replaced Hal Jordan as Green Lantern I screamed bloody murder. However, when John Byrne took bumbling mad scientist Lex Luthor and turned him into a corporate fiend, it was a brilliant move. In the past, Luthor had build giant robots, death rays, a green and [...]
Posted tagged ‘Charter Schools’
Lex Luthor is Waiting for Superman
September 20, 2010J.P. Morgan Chase Anounces Plans to Launder Tax Payer Money
May 5, 2010The Chicago Public Schools are facing a financial crisis. Now, all the evidence points to this being a largely manufactured crisis to pry concessions from their employees and dollars from the state. One thing is certain and that is that $250 million dollars that should be going to the Chicago Public Schools have been siphoned [...]
A Tale of Two Cities
January 21, 2010AES Proposed Phase-Out: Shop Classes put to music by Mark Noakes from Save AES CTE HS on Vimeo. It started in Chicago, but New York really seems to have the hang of this whole resistance to privatization movement and has hit the ground running as they attempt to stand up to Mayor Bloomberg’s attempts to [...]
Fighting Privatization
January 4, 2010I’ve made a resolution to do a better job keeping this blog updated this year. The assault on education in this country and in my own city of Chicago is too pressing not to be vocal about what’s going on. I’ve mentioned before that I am a member of CORE (The Caucus of Rank and [...]
Why Teacher Accountability Flounders
November 30, 2009“If you catch a man a fish you can sell it to him. If you teach a man to fish you lose a wonderful business opportunity.” -Groucho Marx. There was a blog post that I saw on twitter today from the ironically named Charter School Insights blog. The post was entitled Michelangelo with a fillet [...]
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