I"n 2013, Rahm Emanuel closed 50 public schools in one day. If for no other reason, he will go down in history as the mayor who shuttered 50 public schools on the same day. Never happened before. What happened to those schools? Watch this short video. Did he think that schools are like hot dog stands or shoe stores? If you don't make a profit, you close it and move on? Did he forget that he was cutting the arteries away from communities, families, and children?Evidence shows that top-down, punitive efforts are ineffective and counterproductive. Instead, a collaborative, community-driven approach—combined with significant, sustained financial investment and a focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning—has been proven to be the better path to school improvement."
At dianeravitch.net
