Sunday links.
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“You don’t make radical changes in times of trouble,” Marilyn Stewart told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday. 20,000 of the 26,000 members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted on Friday and barely a third seem to agree with Stewart. Her opponent in the June 11 runoff is Karen Lewis who headed the CORE caucus slate of candidates. “But Lewis posed this question: ‘And exactly what has this experience gotten us?’ Lewis maintained Saturday that Chicago has seen an influx of charter schools and ‘lots of union jobs lost’ in recent years that her caucus already has been fighting against.”
Rush Limbaugh is a child, a primal scream of a man, but he gets his way because he’s the fat bully on the playground; and Glenn Beck is the weepy kid who’s always crying because he’s insane and you don’t know what he’s going to do and who he’s going to take with him. Bill Maher
University of Minnesota study finds post-Katrina charterized school system in New Orleans has served to resegregate students into a “separate but equal two-tiered school system.
Mayor Daley will put a gun up your ass.
“It leads to ever-increasing inequality in educational outcomes,” Ron Baiman of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability said. “It’s really a terrible way to fund public schools.” Their map shows disparities in local property tax across Illinois
