Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality? - Volume 23 No. 3 - Spring 2009 - Rethinking Schools Online

rethinkingschools.org by Eric Gutstein, Pauline Lipman, Jitu Brown eric Gutstein, Pauline Lipman | Jun. 18, 2009 (Opinion)

But Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policies are not really about Duncan or his successor. The biggest threat to finally achieving equitable and quality education in Chicago's low-income African American and Latino/a schools is not the individual who carries out the policy but a system of mayoral control and corporate power that locks out democracy. The impact of those policies includes thousands of children displaced by school closings, spiked violence as ... Full Story »

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