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Time To Say Goodbye

Time To Say Goodbye

As some of you may have already noticed, I’m shutting down District 299. I created the blog way back in the day (2005) when when I realized that Chicago educators didn’t care much about national news and national educators didn’t care much about Chicago.At the time, I was running a weekly email newsletter rounding up local... Read more »

By Alexander Russo,
May 11, 2015 at 7:42 am •

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Alexander Russo

I grew up near Roscoe & Halsted in the 1970s, left for college and moved back in 2000, started this blog in 2005 (first on my own, then with Catalyst, and now with ChicagoNow). My dad went to Senn. I went to Near North Montessori and Parker. Since 2006 I've been living in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn -- the Wicker Park of New York City. I have another education blog called This Week In Education that focuses on school reform trends at the national level.
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