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Saturday, January 22, 2011

School Tech Connect: Unfinished Business-- With Miguel del Valle in Andersonville

School Tech Connect: Unfinished Business-- With Miguel del Valle in Andersonville

Unfinished Business-- With Miguel del Valle in Andersonville

Because Steven Spielberg neglected to send me $50,000 this month, I decided to ride the bus rather than jet down to Andersonville, the northside neighborhood where Miguel del Valle was spending some time today. We had a great day, walking around meeting the locals.

I’m in this race because the whole ed reform drama is being played out in Chicago. On the one hand, we have Rahm Emanuel, who in interviews tends to downplay the fact that he’s utterly and completely in Bill Gates’ pocket on the question of public education. On the other hand we have Miguel del Valle, whose view of public education is more democratic and more nuanced and not driven by inappropriate, market analogies that frankly have no place in the discussion. You might read here for an idea of what I’m talking about.

Anyway, here’s a little bit of video from the day. You’re going to see a little bit of Andersonville from the bus, and