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Legal challenge to appointed school councils to go forward Chi-Town Daily News
At small and alternative schools, LSCs members are appointed by CPS Chief Arne Duncan and approved by the board of education. ...
Unfiltered Hearing: Illinois House Committee on Education WBEZ
At the request of the Service Employees International Union, the Illinois House Committee on Education met today to discuss problems with food and janitorial services provided by Aramark Corporation in Chicago area schools.
Fired coach at Walter Payton High charged in sex assault ... Chicago Tribune
29, the day that school administrators learned of the allegations, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said. Turner, who is charged with criminal sexual ...
Coach charged with sexual assault, molestation of 2 students Rockford Register Star
A Chicago high school basketball coach has been ordered jailed in lieu of $275000 bail over alleged sexual contact with two 15-year-old students. ...
Open letter to a killer Chicago Tribune
To the person who shot down Leticia Barrera in her Back of the Yards neighborhood on Halloween, ...
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 9:24 PM
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Just sitting around letting off some steam.
Working on my website.
jk website
Comments please.
Working on my website.
jk website
Comments please.
Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 10:05 PM
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Interesting.....and you look totally different than I pictured for some reason.
Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 10:53 PM
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Nice website. Especially fond of the Gompers audio.
It should played in the elevator at the Mart.
It should played in the elevator at the Mart.
Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 11:23 PM
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Agree. Maybe subliminal messages will do the trick.
Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 11:47 PM
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Good gfor you Kugler. keep strong. CPS will kill you even when it does not want you.
Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 1:56 AM
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The Shock Doctrine short Film
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 6:03 AM
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The Kugler website is more than interesting, it's fun. We all need more of that.
Alexander, the day Carlos Sadovi published that piece in the Tribune, I sent him a letter which he passed along for publication. It pointed out that gang shootings like the one he lamented have been going on for more than 30 years. Tribune's editors never published it. Want to ask for reasons?
Arne Duncan's Shock Doctrine tactics (actually, the Daley administration's) have been transparent for years.
It might be hysterically proclaiming a "deficit" that doesn't exist so he can cut special education services in violation of Corey H, or proclaiming "underutulization", "underperformance," or (my new favorite) "underserved communities" in need of new magnet schools (to go along with the local McMansions and the arrival of the millionaires supplanting the locals), Chicago's version of Shock Doctrine has long been in place.
Without the complicity of most of the local media, however, Arne's bullshit simply gets a big laugh.
Take the "deficit" from early 2006 that turned into a surplus a year later (after CPS had successfully cut $26 million from special education and locked in the current reign of terror against special education teachers and case managers who try to fight for appropriate services for kids). Without the Tribune pumping up the "deficit" story from the time Arne launched it at the City Club (January 2006) to the day Judge Gettleman (the Corey H judge) told a federal courtroom he wasn't going to interfere with CPS's ability to deal with the "deficit" (why wouldn't Gettleman believe the Tribune's "reporting"?), these tricks have real consequences in the real world for thousands of Chicago's most vulnerable people.
This recent round of cuts came right on schedule according to the CPS and Chicago shock doctrine script. In December 2007, Arne breathlessly proclaims the absolute need to save the city money by examining "underutilized" schools (while leaving out both his own favorites small schools -- like those in Austin -- and all the charters).
Dutifully reported in the Tribune and Sun-Times, the "MY GOD WE HAVE UNDERUTILIZED SCHOOL BUILDINGS!" story becomes the preliminary barrage in an attack on dozens of schools. If you think that the recent attacks on Carver Middle School, Irving Park Middle, De La Cruz, Duprey, and Andersen were unique, watch what happens in the next two years. Arne already tried more cooking the demographic books last Wednesday (March 26, 2008) against Pope and Gregory. And if you really believe Arne was going to relocate LEARN out of Gregory once he had infected the building, ask people at Wadsworth or Senn what happens once they get the wedge in your back.
He's going to use that latest round of hysterics every month against the public schools -- while ignoring the current realities of almost every one of the charter schools, to take just one example -- until someone with more clout than a handful of us calls him on it.
So... It's good to have some new website readings and viewings to enjoy, but the Shock Doctrine future for Chicago's remaining public schools will continue, with Duncan's and Daley's officially approved lies leading every charge. We reviewed (enormously extensively) Naomi Klein's book back in October, and since then it's been possible to get videos of Naomi Klein discussing many of the points she raises in her book. New Orleans (Paul Vallas's current venue for privatization and corporate attacks on public schools) leads "The Shock Doctrine", but there should be more about Chicago to complete the picture. There will be. Just be patient.
Alexander, the day Carlos Sadovi published that piece in the Tribune, I sent him a letter which he passed along for publication. It pointed out that gang shootings like the one he lamented have been going on for more than 30 years. Tribune's editors never published it. Want to ask for reasons?
Arne Duncan's Shock Doctrine tactics (actually, the Daley administration's) have been transparent for years.
It might be hysterically proclaiming a "deficit" that doesn't exist so he can cut special education services in violation of Corey H, or proclaiming "underutulization", "underperformance," or (my new favorite) "underserved communities" in need of new magnet schools (to go along with the local McMansions and the arrival of the millionaires supplanting the locals), Chicago's version of Shock Doctrine has long been in place.
Without the complicity of most of the local media, however, Arne's bullshit simply gets a big laugh.
Take the "deficit" from early 2006 that turned into a surplus a year later (after CPS had successfully cut $26 million from special education and locked in the current reign of terror against special education teachers and case managers who try to fight for appropriate services for kids). Without the Tribune pumping up the "deficit" story from the time Arne launched it at the City Club (January 2006) to the day Judge Gettleman (the Corey H judge) told a federal courtroom he wasn't going to interfere with CPS's ability to deal with the "deficit" (why wouldn't Gettleman believe the Tribune's "reporting"?), these tricks have real consequences in the real world for thousands of Chicago's most vulnerable people.
This recent round of cuts came right on schedule according to the CPS and Chicago shock doctrine script. In December 2007, Arne breathlessly proclaims the absolute need to save the city money by examining "underutilized" schools (while leaving out both his own favorites small schools -- like those in Austin -- and all the charters).
Dutifully reported in the Tribune and Sun-Times, the "MY GOD WE HAVE UNDERUTILIZED SCHOOL BUILDINGS!" story becomes the preliminary barrage in an attack on dozens of schools. If you think that the recent attacks on Carver Middle School, Irving Park Middle, De La Cruz, Duprey, and Andersen were unique, watch what happens in the next two years. Arne already tried more cooking the demographic books last Wednesday (March 26, 2008) against Pope and Gregory. And if you really believe Arne was going to relocate LEARN out of Gregory once he had infected the building, ask people at Wadsworth or Senn what happens once they get the wedge in your back.
He's going to use that latest round of hysterics every month against the public schools -- while ignoring the current realities of almost every one of the charter schools, to take just one example -- until someone with more clout than a handful of us calls him on it.
So... It's good to have some new website readings and viewings to enjoy, but the Shock Doctrine future for Chicago's remaining public schools will continue, with Duncan's and Daley's officially approved lies leading every charge. We reviewed (enormously extensively) Naomi Klein's book back in October, and since then it's been possible to get videos of Naomi Klein discussing many of the points she raises in her book. New Orleans (Paul Vallas's current venue for privatization and corporate attacks on public schools) leads "The Shock Doctrine", but there should be more about Chicago to complete the picture. There will be. Just be patient.
