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Will Chicago's teachers have the wherewithal to do battle with Rahm Emanuel and especially the Wall Street crooks looking to make a killing off the education of young people?
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Despite their political and economic philosophy being completely debunked and discredited, the neolibs continue their attack on working people's living standards.
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A country which trashes its public education, the cornerstone of what made it great in the first place, and education's employees, is a country in decline.
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Guinea worms are on the way out.
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Speaking of worming your way into corruption, take a look at how successful it was to outsource special education services to private outfits:

The owners of a Bronx company that employs teachers for disabled toddlers used thousands of dollars in government funds to fix up a weekend getaway in the Poconos, state auditors found. A Brooklyn company in the same program, which provides treatment for prekindergarten special education students, billed taxpayers for his wife’s $150,000 salary as his assistant director when she was a full-time professor at the City University of New York, the auditors said.

And the owners of an upstate company improperly diverted more than $800,000 to pay, among other things, rent and interest to themselves and the full-time salary of an executive who lived in South Carolina and seldom worked.

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There should be concern Philadelphia's school district will be dismantled, what with two utterly incompetent candidates making the "final cut" for the sup job:

Martinez came to the United States from Mexico as a child and was trained as an accountant and worked in finance early in his career. But after completing the Broad Superintendents Academy - a program that trains urban school leaders and emphasizes bringing some elements of the business world to education - he shifted his focus. Martinez worked as chief financial officer in Chicago under Arne Duncan, now the U.S. secretary of education.

He's clearly on the move. After spending six years in Chicago, the third-largest school system in the United States, Martinez worked in Washoe County (Reno), Nev., as a deputy, then left for Las Vegas. He's also now a finalist for Reno's top job.

"We would hate to lose him, but we know that he's superintendent material, and we support him," Fulkerson said. "We think his skill set would be an asset to students in every district."

Ask the residents of Clark County if they "hate to lose him."