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Crispus Attucks
From Stephanie Gadlin--- CHICAGO – At present, the gymnasium of the former Crispus Attucks Elementary School, 3813 S. Dearborn, can’t possibly contribute to a profitable sale for the Chicago Public...
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Rogers Park Marches Against Charters
Hell of a night up on Howard Street. Northside P.O.W.E.R had a community meeting, and something like 600 people showed up. The group is the organizing arm of A Just Harvest, and it's run by some darned...
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Remember This?
Apropos of nothing in particular, I wanted to run a miniclip from last year, just to remind people about what a remarkably overprivileged and I'm sorry to say horrid person Bruce Rauner is. This clip...
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This Cannot Stand
I'm not going to lie--- I'm sucking air here, people. Between Problem X, Situation Y, and Reality Z, it's situation where I can't decide whether to stop blogging today, tomorrow, or the next day....
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The Other Unbelievably Bizarre Story
Before I went all kooky in the kepi over of CPS roundup of Persepolis, I was going to chime in about the highly weird, I'm-off-my-meds comment from the B3 about how every "gets it" that all these...
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The Short Answer...
It's 3:29 PM on Friday. It would have taken CPS about five minutes to tell the honest story about what happened with Persepolis. The delay in the explanation indicates to me that someone is very busy...
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Copies Available
Persepolis is flying off the shelves everywhere. But just to be clear, you can definitely still find copies here. They've even got it in French.People say it's good. And you totally don't need...
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Kismet For Hizmet
In non-Persepolis related news, this has to be called what it is, a victory for the Hizmet Movement. I've done an election or two, and there's really only one reason to postpone the vote: you don't...
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Look At This Monster Week in Chicago!
A busy week ahead..... I will be making appearances at as many of these things as I can get to.Monday through Thursday, CTU is having organizing meetings for members, parents, students, and community....
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Notes on the Revolution
This is my favorite image from the recent Northside P.O.W.E.R. event. It's one of the organizers, Bridget Harris, reacting to the spectacular turnout and the perfectly executed march to the alderman's...
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In Which I Explain Why I'm Opposed To Another Concept School
Just an update about the state charter panel that's meeting today at 1:30 PM at the Thompson Center. I don't know if this is a hearing or just a public meeting, or what, but it appears from the agenda...
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CPS Chief Has No Answers
Raise Your Hand has a press conference today at CPS headquarters, and Wendy Katten managed to catch CPS Chief Administrator Tim Cawley in an impromptu question/non-answer session. It's really quite...
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Today's Ironic Moment
This, from bar-exams-for-teachers lady: I criticize the leader of my national association quite a lot, but I begrudgingly respect her for going to Philly and getting herself decently arrested. It's...
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Is It On The Shelf?
What is the actual situation at Lane Tech? Is the book still in the library collection? I know they shut down a sit-in, but is the book available for checkout?
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Charter Meeting Thursday Night in Bowmanville
Raise Your Hand is putting out a red alert on the new Concept charter school that the appointed state charter commission just inserted into Chicago. There's a meeting Thursday night of the Bowmanville...
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Opaque By Design
I'm at work so I can't really track the day of the long knives in the city, but I hope people understand one thing moving forward-- No decisions were made based on public comments at any of the...
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Lancaster's not having it.
Just posting a denial letter here for future reference. It's the text of the Lancaster, PA school district denial of a Gulen charter: the Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship, which I found in a...
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Jesse Sharkey and Wendy Katten
Jesse Sharkey and Wendy Katten on Chicago Tonight. Distribute widely. I'm still reeling from B3's "Where were the parents?" meme. Previously I thought she was off her meds. Now I think she's insanely...
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Unilateral Disarmament
I just want to point out that we're back on the phones today because the senate is about to send some highly unconstitutional stuff to the governor, in spite of the senators taking some kind of oath of...
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Some Questions About The Concept Charter
Confusion in my head there is. Plus I've started blogging in Yoda's voice so I've got my hands full here. Here's my question: how does that state charter commission operate? Was there a commission...
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Travel Day
Light posting. I'm heading north. And by heading north, I mean dealing with another tire blowout. There is a direct relationship between the number of times I park on the street in Rogers Park and the...
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Dispatch From The Forest
I'm up in the woods so ixnay on the ogging-blay. Going to miss the historic event on Wednesday, I'm embarrassed to say, but I'll commit right now to getting properly arrested later in the summer. It's...
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Do Good Today!
I was tempted to go with "do well" but it sounds so constipated. I'm still doing the Grizzly Adams routine up here so there will be no marching in downtown Chicago for me today. I wish everyone well....
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Giants, In My Eyes
If I climb uphill I can get cellular. Seeing some Twitter traffic from the massive protest in the loop. I must say that one of the big privileges of my life has been getting to meet some of the truly...
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This Isn't Goodbye-Goodbye...
...but it's goodbye for now. And so we have come to the end of School TechConnect. It's been a hell of a ride. I'm taking a few months off. I'll still be active on Twitter because as you know, I have...
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