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Our public school system is struggling.
Charter schools are an attempt not to sit idly by and let another generation of kids go down the drain.
Are they working?
In this excerpt from a Cafe Society discussion recorded at Chicago Public Radio's West Side Bureau on Feb. 24th, two educators from two different camps who normally don't talk to each other, sat at the same table to discuss the pros and cons of charter schools.
You can also hear the discussion in its entirety below.*
It's the economy, stupid...
This excerpt from the Feb. 23rd discussion on education reform in Chicago gets at the relationship between money and school.
In the audio clips below, you can hear the audio from the Feb. 23rd discussion featuring James Thindwa in its entirety.* You'll hear people get into the implications of running schools with business models, the role of teachers in decision making, and the effects that economic inequities have on education.
* to preserve participants' anonymity, real last names are edited out. Note: the real names of the featured experts for the night were included.
What's really going on out there?
Healthcare Diaries: Tales from the Front The assignment this month is to blog your encounter with the healthcare system. Sign up and take Vocalo with you to the doctor, the drug store, the billing department, etc. If you work in health care, let Vocalo with you.
Here are some of the early blogs coming into our hotline:
Peter says paramedics don't just deal with life and death. The job is also about long hours, lack of respect and coping with down time.
manomed is a 22 year old paramedic and student with Prompt Ambulance Service, a private emergency service based in Highland, Ind.
" . .another one of my patients was really freaked out about ...getting AIDS" - Kai T.
KT sees scared teens and worried mothers as a nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood in Chicago who also a midwife who delivers babies on the weekends.
Erin Raether knows being a nurse means sometimes you eat lunch after you go home at night.
eeraether is a registered nurse for Erie Family Health Center on the west side of Chicago. They work with uninsured and Medicaid patients.
Other highlights of Where does it hurt?
Listen all month long. We'll bring you the stories of quack medicine; saving lives; vegan Body building and shot day at the health department.
Join our Where does it hurt Group for posts on the raging national debate; local info.; features like "whats you're best excuse for calling in sick?". Just watch or switch up the group with your own posts. That's why we're here.
Yasmin Nair, a writer for the Windy City Times and a member of GenderJUST, and Bob Schwartz of the Gay Liberation Network, joined Brian and mollymolly in the studio to discuss gay marriage.
Yasmin argues that the queer movement should ditch the marriage issue and work on other more pressing issues, Bob Schwartz thinks that marriage is THE issue for LGBTQA folks now.
Listen to parts 1 and 2 below.
