it's part of the city's McCormick Place convention complex.

But still, it's a $100 million arena in a city that claims it's broke. Similar projects elsehwere are most often funded by raising the hotel tax.

and the city is funding is only about 1/3 of the cost.
just sayin'.

the ordinary citizens and his/her needs.
It would seem the Plutocrats never run out of stooges to do their bidding.

They hate everything to do with the working class. It pains them that we get anything beneficial in society. Nothing would make them happier then if we all just gave up and signed contracts of indentured servitude.

and don't mind cutting them off at the knees. After all they pay big money for their kid's education--why should poor kids get the same for nothing? Moochers.

their mommy or daddy knew someone (or gave a large lump sum of money to the school)...while the kid from a middle class family who worked his/her ass off to get a scholarship...only to find out the wealthy family got priority.

the poobahs and moguls of the 1%.

-Laelth

The best predictors of student performance are and have always been parental income and parental literacy level.

Save the money from all of the "testing" - just drive through the neighborhood where the child lives - it'll tell you everything you need to know.

Put little Chase and Colby in with the rest of the kids and shit will change. Keep giving them an escape capsule and they'll ever be back trying to destroy or profit from the public system.

I think the FDR moderates have been proven wrong by the last several decades, there is no dealing with wealthy interests because ever will they seek to eat it all up. Capitalism cannot successfully be leashed other than for a brief moment while they wait for the torches to be extinguished and the pitchforks to dull.

that we can't solve some problem -- usually they're talking about public schools -- by throwing money at it, I think, What about the military? Let's not throw any money there. Our soldiers can provide their own uniforms and weapons. And so on. But no, they are ALWAYS willing to throw money at our military, meaning pay for ludicrously expensive weapons systems, but kids can be 60 to a classroom and that's okay.

We throw money at lots of things. But the only complaints are about education.

Glad to see him offering his voice to the struggle.

Thanks for posting Hissy!

Can I hear an A-men?!!!

And add to that, many of the parents who are not considered under the poverty line are working such long hours, they're not really being good parents anymore, or helping with learning problems, homework, etc.

So everyone is being hurt by this economy, except, say it together now, "The 1% who are making out like bandits."

Thank you for posting this material, Hissyspit.

Few things make me angrier than how privately owned educational corporations are turning American children into mere commodities. Some of their CEOs make seven figure salaries from our tax dollars! Public education should not become yet another for-profit racket.

of hearing and reading the word "data." So tired that I have decided not to say the word for a while. For the time being, I will be referring to that term as, "assumptions or premises from which inferences may be drawn."

funding because they underperform on state standardized tests.

partly about cowing to big business.

Before the high-stakes testing movement got going, we knew that standardized tests were a reflection of socio-economic status, not "achievement."

they all ignored evidence and experience. They tossed out bullshit and knew it was bullshit when they offered it up to a child-hating public.

Anyone can read Donald Graves. And everyone should have read Berliner and Biddle's "Manufactured Crisis" and the ED Week material of Gerald Bracey and Alfie Kohn's stuff. If people read those (and cared about children) we could have avoided the crap that reagan started and Obama is now pushing.

sad fact is that while everyone weighing in on the righteousness of these stats, what they do not seem to realize is that these stats are used to maintain these stats, by some that are well meaning and some that are not, but it is the truth pure and simple

This is not a country that cares about children. There is no evidence to show that America gives a damn about its children. Our politicians reflect that.

Trillions for Wall Street, nothing for Main Street.

And the beat goes on...