chicagodads

First of all, let me just clarify something: Although I still don’t think that Obama’s involved in dirty Chicago politics, he does have A LOT of connections that are connected to others that are. But that’s not really saying anything new as far as politicians are concerned. However, thanks to that big dummy who keeps his governor’s mansion on the North Side, it is big news and loads of speculation. Which is actually a good thing, I think. Everybody keeps talking about what a reformer Daley Jr. is and how good it must be to be in his city and under his care. Hopefully, the shone light will shine bright.

Anyway, of everyone Chicago that is either on the president-elect’s transition team, or been appointed to his cabinet, or both, the one that is most intriguing to me (and hopefully to other fathers) is his choice for Secretary of Education, Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan. Mr. Duncan is an amusing choice, at the very least because his appointment alone disproves the whole “Barack Obama is a socialist” <quote>theory</quote>.  After all, Mr. Duncan’s legacy around these parts is closing down publicly-financed/run/and operated schools and giving them over to educational institutions - some of them explicitly for-profit. But we’ll talk about that later.

In fact, I’m looking at a three-parter here. Tomorrow I wanna talk about some of the history and context around these ‘changes’ that Mssrs. Daley (the real head of the CPS) and Duncan have orchestrated and in what direction these changes seem to want to take the city’s direction.

(other posts in this series can be read here , there , yep , this way and that )

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