The sham Board of Ed. meeting in Chicago is in progress.
The Board will vote to close about 50 PUBLIC schools today and mess up this city. The mayor is trying to get funding for a casino and an arena. He doesn't care about the kids. Wants them under-educated so that they can take those low paying jobs at the casino and arena. Maybe.
You can watch it here:
board meeting
The twitter feed is here:
twitter
Many folks denied access. The overflow room is filled with school employees. Speaker spots taken up by charter parents. Lots of silliness. Only 2 minutes for this.
The budgets haven't been sent to the schools for next year yet. These closures are mostly in minority neighborhoods. They aren't going to really save the school district much money after all. It seems like a grab for buildings to be given over to charter schools.
I'm off now. But this is making me ill.
We need a new mayor. Of the people.