Rahm Emanuel's new education policy is senseless on the face of it. To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show that they’ve secured a job or received a letter of...
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The Chicago Teachers Union, which in 2012 had one of the biggest and most important strikes of the last decade, is back on the picket line today for a 1-day.
It seems that sketchy bond trading from Rahm Emanuel is at the roots of the Chicago school funding problems: Over a billion dollars of taxpayer money will be diverted from.
Boy, it sure is sad to finally see Rahm Emanuel fall apart. Rick Perlstein's analysis of Rahm is pretty damning. First, all Rahm has ever cared about is cash. If that means hanging out with Republicans, all the better. But even worse, Rahm the Democratic...
As you may know, Rahm Emanuel closed a whole bunch of schools and mental health clinics in Chicago, leading to the classic "YOU'RE GONNA RESPECT ME!" exchange. What does Rahm's.
Fred Hiatt's editorial board on the beleaguered Rahm Emanuel. It shouldn’t escape notice that Mr. Emanuel’s willingness to take on these very same unions as he tackled some of the.
Perhaps the fact that the people of Chicago hate him is unnerving Rahm Emanuel. Or maybe he's just an awful human being.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis was all geared up to run for mayor against the odious Rahm Emanuel. She had a huge lead in the polls and it could.
I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan of spoken word performance art. I am however a fan of grassroots protests against Rahm Emanuel and his policies of making the poor.
Less than three months after Rahm Emanuel closed 50 Chicago public schools to bust the teachers union move resources around efficiently, the august mayor has issued a call for new charter schools in the very neighborhoods where the public schools were shuttered. It just so...
While I don't doubt that Chicago has a real budget crisis coming from unfunded pension requirements, this is pretty telling of how Rahm Emanuel plans to use Teach for America.
Teach for America gets played at this great progressive thing. You, young bright-eyed college graduate, can go and change the world through your willpower and optimism. It taps into deeply.