Chicago Way w/John Kass: Brandon Johnson is a disaster for CPS students

The Chicago Way

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (10/07/24): On this episode, Ted Dabrowski of Wirepoints.org joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to talk about how Chicago’s school system fails its students and is driving the city off a financial cliff as Mayor Brandon Johnson pushes CPS CEO Pedro Martinez out. Plus, Kasso wonders what monster will replace the […]

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0:00.0	Do you ever hear the phrase I don't do raggedy? That was Mayor Johnson just a few days ago as
0:08.9	the collapse of his crisis of his own making began to harass him unmercifully. The school board resigns
0:19.7	40 of the 50 alderman in Chicago basically give him a bullet of no confidence.
0:28.2	The chaos ensues and the kids aren't being educated.
0:33.0	Kids can't read or do math in the single digits percentages.
0:40.0	And Ted Nebraska of WirePoints.org is here to help assess this and put it in proper perspective.
0:50.0	Jeff Carlin is here as always executive producer of WGM radio and future teacher in Illinois and I'm John Cass
1:01.4	Executive editor of John Cast News.com, where you always get a good cup of Midwestern common
1:08.8	sense. Come and subscribe, $5 a month or $50 a year discounted and where are you in this chaos with
1:19.8	Ted Nebraska here with us with the kids of Chicago being groomed not for anything else
1:27.0	other than going to prison or becoming violent criminals. They can't read, they can't do meth, they can't have a job.
1:35.6	How are you going to deal with that? All this on the Chicago Way podcast on WGM Plus.
1:43.2	Did you or did you not ask Pedro Martinez to resign?
1:46.8	Now as you know I don't ever discuss personnel issues.
1:50.0	I find it to be highly offensive, irresponsible in raggedy.
1:53.2	So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power and
2:02.3	it is, it's the Chicago way absolutely.
2:04.8	The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon.
2:09.8	It's the Chicago way.
2:11.6	The Chicago way that's the focus.. The Chicago Way.
2:13.2	That's the focus.
2:14.0	In a tower by the river, there lived a man.
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