“We care about kids…”
Social worker ratio to special needs children: 180:1
“Instead of going directly to receiving schools, a large portion of the transition budgets allocated through central office went to management costs, such as logistsics, human resources, building monitoring, and safe passage programs implemented to address safety concerns.”
“Even at the receiving schools with brand new libraries–Leland, McCutcheon, Harvard, and Bass–only Leland has a librarian on staff.”
Numbers speak louder than empty words.
Chicago provided the model for school “reform” as we now experience it in America. A decade ago Arne Duncan, then C.E.O. of the Chicago Public Schools, launched Renaissance 2010, whose purpose was to expand school choice by opening 100 new schools by 2010, many of them charter schools, and closing so-called “failing” public schools. New Schools for Chicago, a supporter of Ren10, as it was called, provides this puff-piece history: “In June 2004, Mayor Richard M. Daley, then Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan, and leaders from the Chicago business community announced Renaissance 2010 (Ren10). The goal of this bold initiative was to open 100 new schools and provide all students, regardless of socioeconomic background, with the opportunity to compete on the global playing field. The Renaissance Schools Fund (RSF) was established by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club as the fundraising and strategic partner…
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