Fighting Rahm Emanuel’s Privatization of Chicago’s Schools – RAI with LaRaviere (pt 3/4)
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Fighting Rahm Emanuel’s Privatization of Chicago’s Schools – RAI with LaRaviere (pt 3/4)

On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, the president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, Troy LaRaviere, says there’s no evidence that giving corporations tax breaks or putting schools in competition with each other makes for better education; in fact, the evidence says the opposite.

Taking on Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Democratic Party Machine – RAI with LaRaviere (pt 2/4)
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Taking on Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Democratic Party Machine – RAI with LaRaviere (pt 2/4)

This interview was originally published on August 15, 2017. On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Troy LaRaviere says growing up in poverty prepared him for a fight to defend public education in Chicago, even when it threatened his own job as a school principal.

Nauseating Racial Discrimination of Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Public Schools – RAI LaRaviere (pt 1/4)
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Nauseating Racial Discrimination of Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Public Schools – RAI LaRaviere (pt 1/4)

This interview was originally published on August 10, 2017. On Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay talks to the president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, Troy LaRaviere, about his new report that found systemic racial discrimination in the way Chicago Public Schools receive special education funding.