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Posts tagged "Charter Schools"

Watch Illinois Policy Institute's Tillman on Cable/Web: Obama, Gas Prices, School Choice, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations and oh, so much more.

Is the Illinois Policy Institute (liberty and free market based), reinvigorated in the last few years under the leadership of its CEO, John Tillman, now one of the two most influential public policy think tanks in Illinois? The answer has to be “Yes, it is.”  Major events hosted by the Illinois Policy Institute in the... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 22, 2012 at 1:49 pm
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Better than tonight’s election returns: watch Illinois Policy Institute's Tillman on cable/web

Better than watching tonight’s election returns: IPI’s John Tillman on cable and the web Is President Obama responsible for gasoline costing $4.30/gallon? Does President Obama deserve credit for supporting charter schools? Can the Illinois 2012 tax hike be repealed, the state budget balanced and the 7 billion dollars in unpaid bills be handled without Draconian... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
March 20, 2012 at 8:17 pm
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Watch former Attorney General Ty Fahner debate how to fix the state employee pensions and Chicago Public Schools, On cable and web

Playing word association with Ty Fahner, former Illinois Attorney General.   Ty Fahner is currently splitting his days between being President of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago and practicing law as he has for many years as a Partner at the 1800 attorney international law firm of Mayer Brown.  At the... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
March 6, 2012 at 8:57 pm
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Laura Washington goes toe to toe w/Berkowitz on Cable and the Web on high tech lynchings, helping minorities and Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Laura Washington [Chicago Sun-Times and ABC-7]: We’re talking thirty-forty years that this has been going on, and this has been happening in every community in the country.  Not just in Chicago.  We’ve had Republican Administrations; we’ve had Democratic Administrations over the last thirty-forty years. [Watch Washington v. Berkowitz  here]. Jeff Berkowitz:  Not in Chicago. Laura... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
December 12, 2011 at 10:05 pm
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Better than Chris Wallace with Keith Olbermann: Berkowitz with Jennifer Granholm on the Web and Cable

This week’s suburban edition of “Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz,” features Jennifer Granholm, Democratic Governor of Michigan from 2002 to 2010.   The show with the outspoken, articulate, attractive, good-natured and Harvard Law School trained nationally influential Democrat airs tonight on Comcast  in 24 north and northwest Chicago Metro suburbs and on Wed-Friday of this week... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
November 29, 2011 at 8:58 pm
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Will the 2012 Presidential election be a referendum on the Liberty v. Progressive paradigm? John Tillman , CEO of the Policy Institute, says yes.

Watch Berkowitz face-off with the Illinois Policy Institute’s CEO John Tillman on Cable/web to discuss the Liberty v. Progressive paradigm.  Tillman thinks this will be the defining issue of the 2012 Presidential general election.  Will the country move in a direction of empowering individuals to make important consumption and production choices, or will the country... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
November 22, 2011 at 6:31 pm
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Better than Scott Pelley with Mitt Romney: Berkowitz w/ Fox Chicago’s Mike Flannery on Cable and the Web

Mike Flannery [Fox Chicago Political Editor]: And, I understand why [Mayor Emanuel] backed off; It would have been a court fight…the Mayor and the Board of Education have the power to order teachers to work a longer day… so the teachers have to do that, but they’re able to bargain over money… ************************************************** The “Public Affairs show,”... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
November 14, 2011 at 9:25 pm
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Better than Charlie Rose with Nicole Kidman: watch Berkowitz w/ Fox Chicago News' Mike Flannery on Cable and Charlotte’s Web

Mike Flannery [Fox Chicago News]: …But, to say that [the teachers’ unions] are not thinking about the kids and to say that ideas like that—to delegitimize everything that the union or [its President] Karen Lewis proposes—I think is just wrongheaded. And, it’s wrong. Jeff Berkowitz: Look what they’ve done, Mike, [the teachers’ unions] have never... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
November 8, 2011 at 8:59 pm
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Better than Rachel Maddow w/Rick Perry: Berkowitz w/Robin Steans on Web and Cable

Robin Steans [Advance Illinois]: …Any charter school starts with a group of students and they look at them and say, our job is to get the kids from where they are today to where we want them to be…and there is nothing to stop us, except our own imagination…there is a burden and there is... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
September 27, 2011 at 8:28 pm
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How to bring balance to WTTW. The Chicago Mayoral Candidates' Forum: Education, economic growth, jobs and the Tea Party, inadvertent omissions?

The most striking aspect of last night’s WTTW forum among the four major candidates for Chicago Mayor was the paucity of attention to the factors that are most likely to drive economic growth in the future in the city, and certainly to those growth factors that are important from a free market perspective.   The... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
February 15, 2011 at 4:06 am
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