Marshall High and other turnaround high schools, in Chicago and nationally, face a thorny dilemma. Higher-performing students are being siphoned off through competition, driving down enrollment and raising tough policy questions about the future of these schools.
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By: Alexander Russo / July 06, 2009
Teen among 4 slain, 22 wounded on weekend Sun Times
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death of a 16-year-old, one of two teens gunned down in an apparent
South Side drive-by shooting, kicked off a particularly violent
weekend, police said.
Gun, knife arrests at Taste of Chicago Tribune
Police
said a 15-year-old boy was arrested with a shotgun after being spotted
with it at Taste, while five other people were arrested outside the
Taste grounds.Q & A with Education Secretary Arne Duncan Tribune
Q: Why include business in the policy debate about public education?
A: We all need to work together on this stuff, business leaders and educators. Everyone's mutual interests are absolutely aligned.
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Although Danny is wrong about the problems and body count from Taft High School, he's correct that the problems are concentrated elsewhere.
What puzzles me is that in his meanderings in support of the status quo, he doesn't get it about how the concentration of the violence in the segregated parts of Chicago (where the gangs have also been allowed to rum amuck by Daleys for three generations) is a part of a policy -- not just coincidence.
When we challenged CPS to do something about the gang violence in a couple of schools while I was working as Director of Security and Safety at CTU, Michael Scott and Arne Duncan double crossed us. Instead of working with the teachers to develop programs to isolated and eliminated the Vice Lords and Four-Corner Hustlers from Austin High School, or the Black P. Stones from Calumet High School, Duncan and Scott utilized our cooperation to eliminate Austin High School and Calumet High School -- and spread the gangs and the violence, just as all of us predicted.
This is policy, not accident.
Whether it comes over the signature of Ron Huberman and Michael Scott, Arne Duncan and Michael Scott, Paul Vallas and Gery Chico, or Joseph Hannon and John Cary, the real signature on each of the segregationist monstrosities created and perpetuated by Chicago in its public schools has one name on the bottom line
Richard Daley...
The rest of those guys are interchangable parts. Which is why I threw in Joe Hannon, who was a very big shot once upon a time, until he became ports or conventions chief in exchange for keeping his mouth shut after the "financial crisis" of 1979 and following.
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Thanks, Sam, for the link.
I was unaware the the community policing program had been dismantled.
Cameras may be good as a supplement, but never a replacement, for a beat cop. Other than the obvious money-saving reason, I can't imagine any logic to pulling out visible beat cops in the neighborhoods.
Kugler, I disagree with some of your conclusions, but haven't had to deal with your experiences. At my far northwest side school, I can recall various student deaths over the years from accident, illness, and even suicide--but none from murder. I'm grateful I haven't had to experience that and wish none of my colleagues had to do so.
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[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/06/allegations-of-cover-up-s_n_226353.html new=true]Allegations Of Cover-Up Surround Taste Of Chicago Violence[/url]
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro
First Posted: 07- 6-09 08:01 PM | Updated: 07- 6-09 08:09 PM
News reports characterizing the Taste of Chicago and Friday night's Independence Day fireworks show in Grant Park as "peaceful" have led some bloggers who witnessed more violence than was reported to challenge the official version of events.
The Tribune reported more violence, including a 30-person fight that police broke up quickly. Some incidents were seen or reported. About 9:40 p.m., some 30 police officers had to break up a melee at Congress Parkway and Michigan Avenue as large crowds dispersed west out of Grant Park.
[i]What started out as an altercation with a small group of people involved -- shoving, pushing, yelling -- within seconds became a larger fight with 10-20 people involved, according to a witness. Police quickly handled the disturbance.[/i]
more links to news
[url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-taste-of-chicago-arrests-05jul05,0,3396664.story new=true]Tribune reported more violence[/url]
[url=http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicagosphere/2009/07/is-chicago-covering-up-independence-eve-gang-shooting.html#more new=true]Covering Up Independence Eve Gang Shooting?[/url]
[url=http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2009/07/1st-rule-about-taste-fight-club.html new=true]Fight at the taste of chicago video[/url]
[url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=3c717ca2-814f-40ac-ac9a-06ee9cb65f2a&src=front new=true]suspect who brought a loaded shotgun[/url]
[url=http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2009/07/taste-stories.html#5824403378917388571 new=true]Taste Stories [/url]
lies, lies and more lies
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as in Thriller would have been able to get a zombie back into the grave. And now he is gone. Obama will never stop his support of Arne--basketball rules.
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Ok, I think we all know now. Arne is a zombie.
How do you destroy a zombie? He must be stopped!
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Where is the karma for daley? So you see, we cannot wait for karma--join CORE, contribute to CORE--get out there and protest with CORE--this is a beginning of making our own Karma.
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Someday, hopefully, karma will come calling and give the golden boy a much-needed kick in the ass.
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ronnie is a UC educated kid. He got the blue lights in so that there would be this chaos--poor forced out, test scores go up, $ people move in, left over poor kill each other. Typical UC history in their masters classes and Ronnie is their student. He is doing what ever daley wants--down to the blood.
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outspoken critics -- Fired
looser lackey that fails at given tasks -- Promoted
lest i forget,
non-experienced non-licensed gets you a top job!
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Let's not forget who was responsible for the proliferation of the pod cams. That's right, our very own CEO. In fact that's how he first got himself in the mayor's good graces so he could begin his meritless medioric rise in city government. At the time he offered all kinds of lofty rhetoric backed up by junk stats about how gang-related crime would decrease dramatically. Guess not. And yet, he keeps getting promoted....
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The rise in violence in Chicago is a direct result of the mayor's policies on free access, social services and gentrification. The more we privatize the more people who need services are left out(they can not pay). Cameras never deter crime, they document crime and after awhile when individuals' initial "camera careful" reaction wears off it is business as usual.
In my neighborhood the bangers hang out right under the camera(5-15 at a time), all they have to say is they want to stay safe. Then when they are ready to do a crime they go off camera.
The city needs to be adding jobs in education, social services, parks and recreation, aging, dept of health [b]NOT CUTTING THEM.[/b]
Only a bozo cuts jobs in an economic downturn, this creates instability. And whatever happened to all the stimulus money that was suppose to create these jobs?
Oh, sorry i forgot, the chaos theory and shock doctrine, once chaos is created then government can justify the privatization and dismantling of public services because obviously there are broken!
Me o me the idealist, i always forget the true master plan.
[b]$$$$$$$$$$$$ =======>>>> BLOOD MONEY[/b]
Every death this weekend was profit for some insider in the mayors office. whether is was from a dislocated public housing family, drug addict not given proper access to treatment, a parolee not given "proper" job training, a kid in a wrong neighbor hood because their school closed and they had to move, and the just plain, people have nothing better to do than hang out and get into trouble.
Anyone who wants to argue against me go ahead, I have had at least 2 of my students murdered and 5 are now in prison as the direct result of the lack of services the City of Chicago has provided for these young men. These cases are documented.
Here are some definitions for you all to ponder. I did post this type of information a few years ago and was attacked. Well here it is again.
[b]Population transfer [/b] is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion. Banishment or exile is a similar process, but is forcibly applied to individuals and groups.
Often the affected population is transferred by force to a distant region, perhaps not suited to their way of life, causing them substantial harm. In addition, the loss of all immovable property and, when forced, the loss of substantial amounts of movable property, is implied.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer new=true]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer[/url]
This paper examines the consequences for those evicted from the settlement of Maroko in Lagos in 1990 in terms of housing quality, overcrowding, rents, basic services and overall satisfaction with their new neighbourhood. It shows that most of those evicted were worse housed than before the eviction.
[url=http://eau.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/2/271 new=true]http://eau.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/2/271[/url]
American housing policy has been firmly committed to deconcentrating poverty over the past 10 years. The demolition and decommissioning of large concentrations of public and publicly subsidised(sic) housing might be justified by the improvements produced in those communities. It could be the case that reducing those concentrations of poverty leads to the reintroduction of private capital investment in those communities. Coupled with renewed public sector attention, these neighbourhoods might become revitalised and problems of crime, delinquency and joblessness might be reduced.
Goetz, Edward G. (2002). Forced Relocation vs. Voluntary Mobility: The Effects of Dispersal Programmes on Households. Housing Studies, 17 (1), 107-123. Retrieved July 06, 2009, from http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/02673030120105938
John Kugler
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
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Below is an excerpt from Chicago Magazine March 2009:
Can Cameras Replace Cops? by Noah Isackson
This is the link to the article
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2009/Can-Cameras-Replac...
Four years after leading the country in murders, Chicago had made steady progress toward distancing itself from the dreaded moniker of “murder capital,†dropping from 601 murders in 2003 to 445 in 2007, its lowest murder total in four decades. Last year, however, the city’s homicide total rose about 15 percent to 510 murders, just 12 shy of New York, a city with nearly triple the population of Chicago. And while some might feel inclined to blame the spike in violence on last year’s wretched economy, it’s worth noting that other big cities—Baltimore, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, even Detroit—had fewer murders in 2008 than the year before. Two cities that had led the nation in per capita murders, New Orleans and Gary, Indiana, also saw fewer killings.
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why do the olympics want to come here? I get why daley wants them, but what committee in their riught mind would come to Chicago for this?
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In an update to the stories at the top of this thread, the Tribune is now reporting 10 deaths; 63 shootings; and 1 stabbing for the [b]holiday weekend[/b]. (Those are not typos--ten, sixty-three, and one.)
The sun is shining and birds are chirping this morning; yet I am sobered by the violence in this city.