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The Chicago school teachers went on strike today.\u00a0 According to National Review, the average Chicago teacher\u2019s salary is $76,000 per year and they turned down a 16% increase. \u00a0\u00a0This is not playing well in Peoria or anywhere else.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps the Chicago teachers think they should get combat pay in exchange for working in a failed school district.\u00a0\u00a0 Ultimately this has the potential to really hurt Obama because it will bring media focus on the Chicago Public School system.\u00a0 It is an ugly picture.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC)in 1995.\u00a0 CAC collected over $49.2 million in special funding to implement reform in Chicago schools.\u00a0 One of the three co-authors of the grant request was William Ayers:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Annenberg_Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n

What a coincidence.\u00a0 An organization that just happens to be the brain child of Williams Ayers miraculously chooses Barack Obama to be Chairman of the Board.\u00a0 By pure happenstance CAC then channeled money to the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, starring:\u00a0 William Ayers.\u00a0 The following article from the Wall Street Journal describes how the Chicago School Reform Collaborative functioned:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122212856075765367.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of measuring performance with outdated tools, like achievement tests, this program taught activism.\u00a0 Teachers would be \u201ccommunity organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression.\u00a0 To make this work, money wasn\u2019t given directly to schools; it was given to community organizations like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).\u00a0 We are seeing the results of this failed experiment in the streets of Chicago today.<\/p>\n

Chicago Public Schools currently rank 665th out of 772 school districts in Illinois.\u00a0 That is actually an improvement.\u00a0 It appears that when Arne Dunne, current Secretary of State, was CEO of the Chicago Public Schools he tried to change things.\u00a0\u00a0He pushed a return to relying on testing and basing teacher pay on actual results.\u00a0 He then closed failed neighborhood schools and turned them over to charter schools.\u00a0 (It actually looks a lot like \u201cno child left behind\u201d but no Democratic would ever admit that.)\u00a0 The teachers union\u00a0responded with outrage.<\/p>\n

So, under the brilliant leadership of William Ayers, with funding from Barack Obama, the Chicago Public School system became a hot bed of teachers who were more focused on: \u201cprovoking resistance to American racism and Oppression than actually teaching basic skills.\u00a0 \u00a0It is these teachers who are now protesting in the streets of Chicago against the reforms championed by Obama\u2019s own Secretary of Education.\u00a0 You can\u2019t make things like this up.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/9\/10\/chicago_teachers_strike_could_portend_referendum<\/a><\/p>\n

I wonder if anyone in the main stream media will even attempt to connect the dots.\u00a0 Probably not!\u00a0 And we were worried about what he has done to the economy!<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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