Join Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski and Founder Mark Glennon along with guest Paul Vallas on the tenth episode of Wirepoints Podcast: The Dialogue. Paul provides insight on Illinois’ path to school choice.
Earlier Pertinent Wirepoints Columns and Links:
- Here’s A Comprehensive Solution For All Chicago School Financial Problems And The Teacher Strike: Reconstitution
- How can 84% of Chicago Public Schools students graduate when only 26% of 11th graders are proficient in reading, math?
- Illiterate Revolutionaries: Chicago schools struggle as teachers push liberal politics – Short Film
Audio and summary 
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Listened to this all the way through where at the end Vallas mentioned CPS in the early 20th century. That caused me to remember that in 1909 Ella Flagg Young became the first woman[PhD, UC] to run a metropolitan school system. That made my grandmother[in Humboldt Park when it was chiefly Norwegian] very proud. She got removed in 1915. Kids in CPS elementary schools used to have responsibilities running the place. Before the elderly were recruited for crossing guards – when kids walked to school – kids served as crossing guards. My mother recalled that at Harriet Beecher Stowe she… Read more »
The CTU, forever and always a communist organization, destroyed everything.
The high poverty and lack of two parent households had nothing to do with it, eh?
Chicken or egg? Do you believe education has nothing to do with making poor choices in life?