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Most education dollars in Illinois are paid out under contracts negotiated in secret. To improve public education, the same openness rules American expect of open participatory democracy needs to be applied to smoke-filled backroom board-union negotiations.
On opening day every year, school heads spend more time recounting success stories than charting statistical successes. Data retreats, all the rage a decade ago, have disappeared from the landscape. Why despite being flush with data do school leaders prefer to tell stories to open the year?
