For those not familiar with the set-up here, I essentially run two blogs. This one concentrates upon Illinois and National politics. The other–linked as Blog Saint Louis to your left, focuses on Saint Louis and Missouri politics. From time to time one suffers from an outbreak of news in the other area.
Currently, Saint Louis is boiling over with news over a school reform effort that is quite heated in some respects and I even do some original reporting on it. For that reason, while I’ll be better than posting once a week over here, through the next couple of weeks the Saint Louis Public Schools situation is going to be fascinating and taking my attention over at Blog Saint Louis. Given there is a general summer lull, I won’t be missing much.
For those that have an interest in School Reform, I think the Blog Saint Louis posts might be interesting. That being said, they do have a certain amount of buy in time associated as you learn the factions and history. Comments about such confusion will lead me to be more clear.
And I’ll be bold here, I think if Saint Louis gets through the next 10-12 weeks successfully, it won’t be Saint Louis Mayor Francis Slay visiting Daley for blessings on a school reform, Daley will be coming to Slay asking how to avoid burning through CEOs who can’t tame the bureaucracy.