Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: CPS stonewalling FOIA requests on Clemente conversion

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CPS stonewalling FOIA requests on Clemente conversion

by Mike Klonsky

Matt Farmer on Clemente paper trail

My June 25th post about "Rahm's Monday Massacre at Clemente" caused quite a stir. As readers will recall,  Roberto Clemente High School was to be the city's third public high school converted into a wall-to-wall International Baccalaureate (IB) school. The first thing that the new principal Marcey Sorensen, who was brought over from reconstituted Tilden High, did was to use the IB transition to "clean house", firing more than 20 teachers without any due process.The Clemente firings set the stage for the current firing of veteran teachers at another mainly-Latino high school,Social Justice H.S. in Little Village. 

Lots of you responded with comments, many of which were heated, taking both sides of the firing issues.