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The [Tuesday] Papers
I can only imagine that Mick Dumke drew Labor Day duty at the Sun-Times and some crap-ass editor made him go in search of a Donald Trump supporter in the city's tourist district. Because, um, 34,038 Chicagoans voted for Trump in the Republican presidential primary here last spring, which Trump won. They live among us - and they've actually been named in the press!
Look, here's one who started a Facebook group!
"A week before accepting the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, businessman Donald Trump comes to Chicago on Tuesday to collect more than $1 million in campaign fundraising help . . . The Chicago lunch fundraiser has been organized by businessman Ronald Gidwitz, who has assumed the title of Trump Victory Illinois finance chairman."
Maybe give him a call and arrange to meet him downtown!
Just sayin', let's not pretend they are nowhere to be found in our "liberal" city.
Priming Payton's Pump
"Officials and students at Walter Payton College Prep High School cut the ribbon Monday on the elite high school's new $20 million dollar annex that'll eventually raise the school's capacity by about 400 students," the Sun-Times reports.
"When students report for the first day of class Tuesday, they'll find a spacious cafe, third-floor gym, black box theater, mirrored dance studio and more than a dozen additional classrooms in a bright new space at 1034 N. Wells St.
"Principal Tim Devine was delighted that the dance students and theater troupes who once had to cram into hallways now will have dedicated spaces to practice and perform."
Awww, that's nice.
To Twitter:
Does Burnett see the problem here?
Ald. Burnett applauds mayor's expansion of selective enrollment and notes getting his son into Whitney Young more stressful than college
— WBEZeducation (@WBEZeducation) September 5, 2016
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Burnett says people should move here so their kids can go to Payton. Note: Payton is a selective enrollment school, req high test scores.
— WBEZeducation (@WBEZeducation) September 5, 2016
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@WBEZeducation shocking that when you admit only students who test at highest levels, they do well on tests which lead to top rankings.
— Raise Your Hand (@ILRaiseYourHand) September 6, 2016
@ILRaiseYourHand @WBEZeducation Always grateful for the praise bestowed on our Pblc Schl kids from Private Schl Parents. Thx @ClaypoolCPS
— Jeff Jenkins (@jeffjenkins312) September 6, 2016
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Abt Payton annex... Payton, like other NS se hs, r disproportionately, increasingly white & serving way fewer Af. Am. students than n 2010.
— Sarah Karp (@SSKedreporter) September 5, 2016
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Wbez investigation: School construction furthers segregation https://t.co/s5WtYVjILY
— WBEZeducation (@WBEZeducation) September 5, 2016
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. . . when you cherry-pick the best, brightest and cloutiest and disregard the rest.
Payton LSC Chair says Payton is a great example of what a public school can offer.
— WBEZeducation (@WBEZeducation) September 5, 2016
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. . . and a pay cut.
Emanuel: record grad rates and record reading and math scores are due to principals and teachers. Asks for a round of applause.
— WBEZeducation (@WBEZeducation) September 5, 2016
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Back to the Sun-Times:
"Meanwhile, the financially-strapped district is suffering a crisis in its neighborhood high schools, whose graduation rates are credited with raising the district's newly-touted rates of 73.5 percent, but who are stuck in an ugly spiral of losing students and cutting programs as their budgets shrink."
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Rahm: "Payton gives kids from across the city an opportunity to think big, dream big, realize big."
And, for the vast majority of them, to lose big.
"The annex will allow Payton to boost its enrollment by over 400 students," Fox 32 reports.
Total CPS enrollment is around 390,000.
"No longer when applying at Payton will it be that some kids get in because they're academically qualified and some get rejected because they're academically qualified. There'll be enough seats for all those kids," Emanuel said.
The Fortunate 400.
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Welcome to a tale of two cities where Nh HSs lost 8-12% over 4 yrs and elite selective scls getting cafes and black box theaters.
— Raise Your Hand (@ILRaiseYourHand) September 6, 2016
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Beachwood Wins Bogus Award
Only Chicago publisher so honored.
The "Miracles" Of Saint Teresa
Um, okay.
McDonald's & Fast Food Workers' Global Revolution
Black Work Matters.
How American Policing Fails Neighborhoods
Law enforcement playing the wrong game.
Hey, U.S., Get Off Of My Cloud
"The fact that today our private e-mails are kept on a server maintained by an Internet company doesn't change the government's obligations under the Fourth Amendment."
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Featuring: Guided By Voices, Suicideboys, Black Sabbath, If These Trees Could Talk, Prophets of Rage, The Symposium, Rival Sons, Tweens, and Player Blue.
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From the Beachwood sports desk . . .
The Kaepernick Effect
The classroom Pledge is next.
Boot Scoot 'n BBQ
A beer league invite to Tommy La Stella.
Fly The Coop
If you listen to Hawk Harrelson, Don Cooper is an elite pitching coach . . .
Bears Upgrade To 5-11
Gould out, Sitton in.
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Was everyone expecting the #Bears to have a different kind of offseason? I mean, last year ended w/optimism about progress & John Fox 2.0.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) September 5, 2016
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BeachBook
U.S. Companies Tout Climate Policies, Fund Climate Skeptics.
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Word Games: What The NSA Means By "Targeted."
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The Big (Apparel) Business Of College Football.
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Heavy Metal Magazine, Long A Provocateur, Returns To Its Roots.
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Trio From Chicago Discover The Joys Of Paddling The Boundary Waters.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
"Sports"Chatter: pic.twitter.com/QKGqS1s5Yu
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) September 5, 2016
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there's lots of worry about reporters "normalizing" Trump. Like, 90% of what passes for political reporting is normalizing monstrous people.
— Bae Talese (@elongreen) September 5, 2016
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And yet, the press more fascinated by mock debates and who will play Hillary. 'Do you mind pulling back the curtain a bit?'
In gaggle on his plane. Trump once again falsely says that he was against going into Iraq. pic.twitter.com/kDRTQrusjl
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 5, 2016
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Sadly, as I've written before, a lot of journalists think their job is to simply moderate competing claims.
Chris Wallace says not his role as moderator "to be a truth squad," candidates need to challenge each other's claims https://t.co/YlMh9AbsEx
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) September 4, 2016
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Tronc squad.
Posted on September 6, 2016
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