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Michigan adopts 'Chicago Small Schools Model' just as Chicago dumps it!
by Rich Gibson
On Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm gave her annual "State of the State," speech in the capital building in Lansing. What could a governor possibly say in the collapse that is Michigan's economy, in the midst of deepening inequality, sharp segregation and rising racism in cities big and small, from Benton Harbor to Detroit? How to explain the fact that the once beautiful forests of Michigan are now pockmarked with prisons and casinos, the only industries left as one sector of the working class is offered the chance to rob or jail the larger sector? . . .
The governor spotlighted education in her speech, promising to use the "Chicago Model of Small Schools," a $300 million dollar project targeting 100 Michigan schools that are, presumably, suffering from being too big.
What nobody from Chicago told the Governor of Michigan was that while she was promoting the "Chicago Model of Small Schools," Chicago's mayor was heading in the opposite direction. . . .
Subscribers to Substance, the only education newspaper of the resistance, can read the rest of Gibson's searing analysis on page 1 of the February 2008 edition. Since the "Chicago Model" is sweeping the country, this analysis is important to us all.
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2008-02-01
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