The cure for Chicago's public school crisis -- with lessons for the rest of America January 1998 |  |
Chicago's public schools are sick. The United States Secretary of Education calls them "the worst in the nation." And in many ways, they represent the logical extension of principles undermining public education across America. This is a handbook for concerned Chicagoans and people everywhere who care about public education. In a careful and scholarly manner, it gives you the shocking details on our public school crisis. It explains the causes of the crisis. And most importantly, it presents a two-step cure, a blueprint for public school restructuring that gives all parents and community members, whether well-off or poor, real voice and choice in the education that their children receive. Serious problems sometimes call forth serious cooperation, and this book is itself an example of how Chicagoans can unite to cure our public schools: a prominent Democrat, a well-known Republican, a nonpartisan researcher, and a top education scholar have come together and agreed that we can rescue our children. |
