By Steve Rhodes
“Two months ago, CPS leaders announced their intention to close 54 schools, co-locate 11 and hand over six to the Academy of Urban School Leadership to be turned around,” Sarah Karp writes for Catalyst.
“The end result of the school actions is that traditional, district-run neighborhood schools will become scarcer. Schools to which students have to apply and those run by private organizations will continue to take over, casting an ever-bigger shadow over the district.”
Click through – Karp also reviews CPS’s most dubious claims.
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#cpsclosings are like the parking meter deal – only the meters are kids.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 22, 2013
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WBEZ Fact-Checks CPS. With devastating results.
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Fact: CBOE will not be making an informed decision tomorrow. Independent reporting has proven the falsity of nearly every CPS datapoint.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 21, 2013
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Regardless of whether CPS should close any schools, the process has been an abysmal failure: newstips.org/2013/05/common… | #cpsclosings
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 21, 2013
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Click through or click here for the source material of that tweet – Curtis Black’s thorough and reasoned take-down of a perverted public policy process designed to suit one man’s political purpose instead of delivering a just outcome.
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More to come.
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* The Secret Poetry of Afghan Women.
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The Beachwood Tip Line: Use it or lose it.
Posted on May 22, 2013