All articles by Dr. John Kugler, Editor Substance News

Closing the school system is a losing position; mitigation is a winning position

It is time the Chicago Teachers Union collaborates to figure out how we will keep our schools open amid the pandemic and beyond.

Getting tests, vaccinations, and closing certain schools or flipping them as . . .

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[ Memory Lane - Politics has No Friends ] Union Elected School Board votes for massive staff cuts

Here is an article from 9 years ago that talks about the loss of power after the San Diego Elected School Board went against the Union that helped get people elected. It also shows what . . .

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CPS CEO Pedro Martinez circa 2006

15 years ago when this reporter was working on his PhD in Educational Leadership, we had an assignment to learn about public school finances. I figured why mess around, so I went straight to the . . .

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'...More people are coming to see this conflict as an issue of popular democracy versus bankers’ rule...' Analysis in 1980 showed how corporations in Chicago refused to pay taxes, then created the 'Shock Doctrine' effect that forced the School Finance Authority on CPS for nearly 30 years

[Reprint from April 25, 2012] as our country becomes more polarized and now more violent in our political ideologies it might be good to see who is really pulling the strings and who is instigating . . .

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