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NYT Preps For Chicago Edition
Chicago Gets Googled
Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are in town today to meet privately with Mayor Daley and select Chicago Public School students and parents to discuss youth violence.
The New York Times reports that though the meeting will be closed, the officials will most likely discuss how the federal government can help curb the frequent violence among Chicago youth. In the month since school has started, three students already have been killed, and 70 have died since fall of 2007 in their neighborhoods on their way to or from school.
The impetus for the meetings is the beating death two weeks ago of 16-year-old honors student Derrion Albert. He was on his way home from Fenger High School on the Far South Side and got caught in a fight between Fenger students from different housing developments. Holder and Duncan, former Chicago schools chief, will meet with Albert’s family.
The new head of Chicago Public Schools Ron Huberman announced a plan last month that aims to help stop the violence. Based on statistics from 500 past shootings, he has identified 1,200 students who are most likely to be a victim or a perpetrator of violence. Using funding from $60 million in federal stimulus money, he plans to give the at-risk students full-time adult mentors and help them get jobs. Additional money will go to more security at the 38 high schools in Chicago where 80 percent of the killings take place.
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I don't know whether to be happy or sad that the feds had to come in and help Daley and the rest ofthe city with this problem.
Steve Rhodes has an excellent comment on all this over at the Beachwood Reporter.
ahhhh Stealthy boy, the Feds should arrest Daley! First he picks up the phone and has Obama & Co tripping all over themselves to jet across the world for HIS Games! While I might add this story was unfolding. Now that the world saw Daley and his city for what it really is, and sent his sorry a$s back home, he is all about the violence so he picks up the phone and has two of Obama's most crucial cabinet members drop every thing and jet to Chicago. The irony is that one of the cabinet members under Daley's thumb designed and implemented the policies that lead to this exact violence( and death) at Fenger. Daley is a criminal and we are responsible. Compared to him Todd Stroger is Abraham Lincoln!
"Now that the world saw Daley and his city for what it really is:"
Uh, yeah, because Rio is less corrupt and less violent than Chicago, dude.
Can I buy drugs from you? My current dealer apparently isn't as good as yours.
Sorry Matilda my foray into the world of recreational drugs was sacrificed upon the alter of adult reality a while ago. Actually I find life trippy enough with out them. But clearly you do need drugs to battle your bipolar schizophrenia. If you are unfortunate to be part of the growing millions of uninsured, I'd recommend Cook County Hospital as its the only hospital of its kind that has what amounts to universal healthcare. Good luck with your treatment.
Thank you, Dr Phil. I appreciate the online diagnosis, and your continued ability to treat anyone who raises a counterpoint to your ideas with lame insults.
How funny. First you insult him, and then you accuse him of launching "lame insults."
You liberals are funny.
As usual, you are correct, sir. Every time you post I thank Neptune for the wisdom you share with us "liberals."
I don't think Daley has either of these two under his thumb.
And the White House scheduled this trip before the Olympic vote was decided.
Some how I don't think you do much reading about current events or thinking for that matter
From the NYT coverage: "Reinvigorated gang wars, some say from the large-scale demolition of public housing and the scattering of tenants" is the cause of the increased violence.
From a Washington Post quote of Duncan (called Lurch on district299.com)
"To those who seek to lay blame on anyone else, I challenge you to ask first, what have you done? This is the time to look in the collective mirror. No one should get a pass today."
I don't know where the Times reporters have been, but most of the CHA demolition in that area took place almost ten years ago. I don't get why they nor the Wash Post can paint a true picture - that Arne Duncan is talking about HIMSELF and DICKIE in that quote. "Bad" kids from altgeld gardens were told "Go Away" by their neighborhood school when LURCHDICK made it a "military academy" They went to Fenger. I'd really like a current Fenger employee to sound off on this...oh that's right, they're all TAT PAT scabs who actually take a CPS gag order seriously.
Royce, this is just INSANE. I had to turn off WBEZ.s dumbed down sugary City Hall/White House pandering coverage before I got sick.