Violence and charter schools: an update
Last July I wrote a long post drawing a connection between the rising youth violence in Chicago and charter schools.
Things have gotten a lot worse since then — so much so that President Obama finally had to come back home to address it.
I tried to be clear then that there are many causes of violence, but I was responding specifically to an editorial by New Schools for Chicago’s Phyllis Lockett, who suggested that charter schools were actually an answer to
These two sentences from President Obama’s speech at Hyde Park Career Academy have me scratching my head:
“(I)f you’re willing to play a role in a child’s education, then we’ll help you reform your schools. We want to seed more and more partnerships of the kind that Rahm is trying to set up.”
What was he talking about? Any ideas?
President Obama speaks with students at Hyde Park Career Academy
Things have gotten a lot worse since then — so much so that President Obama finally had to come back home to address it.I tried to be clear then that there are many causes of violence, but I was responding specifically to an editorial by New Schools for Chicago’s Phyllis Lockett, who suggested that charter schools were actually an answer to
Now what’s Rahm up to?
These two sentences from President Obama’s speech at Hyde Park Career Academy have me scratching my head:
“(I)f you’re willing to play a role in a child’s education, then we’ll help you reform your schools. We want to seed more and more partnerships of the kind that Rahm is trying to set up.”
What was he talking about? Any ideas?
