Republican Senator Mark Kirk issued a dire warning in March: re-elect Rahm or become Detroit! The 40% of registered Chicago voters who voted chose Rahm.
| Chicago | Detroit | |
|---|---|---|
| Year of first charter school | 1997 | 1994 |
| Year of first mass school closings | 2002 | 2002 |
| Current charter enrollment | 60,982 | 58,612 |
| Current public school management | Interim CEO | Emergency Manager #4 |
| New solution to "fix" schools | Turnaround specialist | Divide district |
| Future of public school system | ??? | ??? |
Rahm Emanuel's second term is off to such a grand start that an editorial (pay-walled) in Friday's Tribune beats the bankruptcy drums ever-harder and suggests a Mussolini-like turnaround expert to manage the schools. In Chicago education, turnaround is code for privatize.
In order to efficiently dispatch any ounce of public ownership of the schools, one would need a tyrannical, opportunistic, and ideologically dishonest--all various ways Mussolini's rule has been described--to come in as CPS's leader to usher in the new age of anti-democracy.
In order to efficiently dispatch any ounce of public ownership of the schools, one would need a tyrannical, opportunistic, and ideologically dishonest--all various ways Mussolini's rule has been described--to come in as CPS's leader to usher in the new age of anti-democracy.
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