How To Make Mayor Rahm Do The Right Thing

As we face the ongoing Dyett hunger strike and a new school year of cuts, tax hikes, and maybe even another teachers’ strike, I’d like to offer a little bit of good news about public education in the age of Mayor Emanuel.

                   Pay attention, everyone—this may come in handy.

         Or it might be that parents, teachers, and community members have been bugging him relentlessly about a particular school.

                 Apparently the amount of squawk a wheel has to squeak to get some grease is a relative thing in Chicago.

                 “He was very pleasant,” says Wozniak. “He walked into my class and said, `I counted the chairs in your class room, and you only had 25.'”

                 “I had a custodian in my room cleaning the windows,” says Wozniak. “I had a janitor scrubbing the floor behind the bookshelf. It was unbelievable.”