The Education Wars: A Cancer Has Metastasized

in the form of mayoral control of schools. What has gone on in Arne's Chicago "reforms" is about to be taken national, to the detriment of public school districts everywhere:

Last month, members of Chicago CORE (Caucus of Rank and File Educators) met with activists in Milwaukee who are trying to head off mayoral control there.

As January moved along, school activists in Rochester, New York, were facing mayoral control in their city, and the local press in Rochester, New York, did a more complete job covering the pitfalls of mayoral control than has yet to be done by the major media in Chicago. For 15 years, Chicago media has been censored and reporters required to promote the "Chicago miracle" in corporate education reform, despite massive evidence to the contrary. Without ongoing media support, Daley's Chicago boasts would quickly collapse. The evidence after 15 years is conclusive.

EVERY damned "reform" pushed by these clowns has been a dismal failure.