The Washington Post Sees Chicago School Reform As U.S. Model

The Washington Post has a nice suck up article on Chicago Public Schools and Arne Duncan:

With a 408,000-student system, smaller than only New York's and Los Angeles's public schools, Chicago has become a laboratory for reform in Duncan's seven-year tenure. Officials here court new charter schools, teacher training is being reinvented, and some low-performing schools have been shuttered and reopened with new staff. Officials are also offering some students cash for good grades and seeking proposals for boarding schools. In addition, Duncan backed a plan to start a gay-friendly high school. For the most part, the changes came with little organized opposition, except for some skirmishes with the teachers union.

We kind of wonder why the Post would consider a school system with 150 half empty schools a "role model"? Maybe, a role model in corruption.No word yet on why Barack Obama didn't have confidence in sending his two kids to Arne Duncan's "innovative" school system.