Rahm Emanuel Should Send His Kids To Chicago Public Schools
CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 10: Mayor Rahm Emanuel (2nd R) visits Chicago
Public School children at Woodson Regional Library on September 10,
2012 in Chicago, Illinois.
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
The Chicago teachers strike has led to the fanciful notion that big city school systems' problems could all be solved if we just banned private schools,
thus forcing folks like Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama to send their
kids to them. That's probably wrong (some families would move to the
suburbs, leaving urban schools with less tax money even as suddenly they
have to serve more kids) but politically it does seem to me to send a
bad message when politicians refuse to participate in public services.
What's more, it sends a misleading message about where the problems are
in the education system.
The fact is that as best we can tell Chicago Public Schools are doing a bang-up job of serving kids like the Emanuels. FDIC: 21.4 percent of black families don’t have bank accounts
WASHINGTON — A government survey shows
about 821,000 U.S. households lost access to basic banking services
between January 2009 and June 2011.
Roughly 10 million U.S. households, or
8.2 percent, have no access to bank accounts, according to a survey
conducted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That’s up from 7.7
percent in the FDIC’s 2009 survey.
And an even larger percentage of
Americans are relying on high-interest alternatives, even those with
traditional bank accounts. The survey found 28.3 percent either lacked
bank accounts or used payday loans, check-cashing services and other
alternatives as of June 2011. That’s up from 25.6 percent in the
previous survey.
Woman drives on sidewalk to avoid stopping for school bus
| Thousands flee Guatemala volcano eruption |
More than 33,000 people evacuated from villages around the Fuego volcano, 40km southwest of Guatemala City.
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Guatemala's Fuego volcano has erupted, spewing smoke and ash 3km into the sky and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people as lava oozed down its slopes, local emergency services said.
The volcano, 40km southwest of the capital Guatemala City, erupted in the early afternoon, belching a cloud of ash above the crater, Guatemala's emergency agency CONRED said in a statement on Thursday.
Roughly 11,000 people have been evacuated and 8,000 more were awaiting transfer to shelters, said Sergio Cabanas, CONRED's director of emergency response. Up to 10,000 others could be moved to safety depending on wind conditions and ash emissions, he added.
"For the moment, the strength (of the eruption) has not calmed," Cabanas said.
| Dozens dead in Afghan bus-tanker collision |
Officials report 50 people killed, with women and children among victims, after passenger bus slams into fuel tanker. |
A passenger bus has collided with a fuel tanker in Afghanistan, killing 50 people and injuring several others, with women and children among the victims, officials said.
The incident happened on Friday in the Spin Band area of Ab Band district of Ghazni province, which straddles the main highway from Kabul to Kandahar, the capital of the south.
It was not immediately clear to whom the fuel tanker belonged.
Ghazni is part of the main supply route for NATO goods coming into Afghanistan from the north and heading south.
"At around 6:30 am [0200 GMT] a passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker in the Spin Band area of Ab Band," Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, the deputy governor of the province, told the AFP news agency.
Hard-working Loretta Devine up for second Emmy
Loretta
Devine attends Michael Clarke Duncan's Memorial Service at Forest Lawn
Cemetery on September 10, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loretta Devine
would love to win a second Emmy for her guest performance as Adele, the
long-suffering wife of surgery chief Richard Webber on “Grey’s Anatomy.”
But the actress, who won last year for
the same role, isn’t quite sure how her first statuette would feel
getting about a sister.
“Well, my Emmy is sleeping with five
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image
Award) boys,” Devine joked, breaking into big laughter. “So, she’s
having a good time. She may be mad if somebody else enters the room.”
Devine’s laugh is building-filling huge,
which likely came in handy this season on the “Grey’s” set when, after a
long, slow decline, her character realized she had Alzheimer’s disease
and needed to be placed into a full-time care facility.
“That particular scene, it was just
wrenching for me,” said Devine. “Sometimes when I watch it, I get so sad
myself. And I know I’m acting it out, you know?”
Devine said audiences have connected with Adele and Richard’s plight.
“It does have a major impact on people
that actually have parents at home, that they’re having to care for,”
she explained. “I always feel like I’ve been hit on the head many too
many times. I got hit on the head a lot on ‘Dreamgirls.’ I’m real scared
that I’m not remembering as much as I should.”
There’s a lot to remember. Devine came
to fame in the original Broadway cast of the Supremes-inspired musical
“Dreamgirls” in 1981. Since then, she hasn’t stopped working for long,
in films including “Waiting to Exhale” (1995) and “Jumping the Broom”
(2011). Recent TV series gigs include playing the massage-parlor madam
on Lifetime’s “The Client List” and voicing Hallie the Hippo of Disney
Junior’s popular “Doc McStuffins.”
“It teaches not be afraid to go to the
doctor. It’s cute and it has songs,” Devine says, then breaks into the
series oft-repeated chorus: “‘Time for your checkup. Time for your
checkup. Woo! Woo! Time for your checkup.’”
Devine’s pipes are still intact. Thirty-two years after “Dreamgirls,” perhaps a Tony is in her sights?
Gail Warrior, founder and CEO of the Warrior Group, leads largest minority woman-owned construction firm in U.S.
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