All articles by George N. Schmidt and Jean Schwab

BOARDWATCH: Board of Education members approve lengthy agenda featuring massive increase in privatization and charters...

While proclaiming, for the sixth or seventh year in a row, that it is facing a "billion dollar deficit," the Chicago Board of Education continued to push for expensive privatization schemes (charter school expansion; elimination . . .

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BOARDWATCH: Board of Eduction hypocrisy on display in all its glory at the April 27, 2016 Board meeting... Charter expansion and privatization expansion continue in the face of all the facts proving both are educationally bankrupt...

Any reporter who has covered the Chicago Board of Education's monthly meetings for even a few months cannot avoid but noticing the few recurrent themes. The themes are routine, no matter who is Chicago's mayor . . .

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