What is the secret to UNO?

Answer 1

There is no "secret" to UNO. They exist to provide Hispanic votes for the Daley Democratic machine. Juan Rangel has provided votes for Daley and in exchange Rangel has received millions in grants, appointments to the Chicago Park District and a salary higher than the Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools. Rangel runs a series of charter schools in Chicago, most of which are located in heavy industry and manufacturing districts that are little more than renovated factory buildings. Hardly a "neighborhood" setting with students, (some of which don't even live in Chicago and therefore attend illegally) often traveling alone on buses for hours to get to and from school.

School directors are not qualified principals. Some master-teachers have questionable work records and many teachers are drawn from volunteer organizations like Teach For America, and have no experience, little formal teaching education and work for the agenda of Teach For America instead of the students.

Recently more negative policies have come to light with the dismissal of David Corral, a teacher who took proper action in a child abuse situation, but who was fired in an effort to cover up the story by UNO. There are other abuse situations that have been reported on different campuses, but in each case, witnesses were terminated, children persecuted for reporting, and draconian measures used to silence the negative aspects of UNO's operation.

UNO isn't about schools or education. In the words of Juan Rangel, stated many times, UNO is about power. Rangel tries to downplay the notion of power, but the actions of the organization reinforce Rangel's position, that all that he does, all that he works for is the increase in his own political power. He uses children and schools, along with other measures to leverage even more power, and the Daley machine willingly grants it.

The record speaks for itself. UNO schools are far from achieving annual yearly progress as defined by NCLB. UNO has gone so far as to change the grading system so that a failing child never receives a failing grade. This "passing" grade is what appears on the official Chicago Public School record and the failing child is promoted year after year. There is no "secret" to UNO. It is a corrupt component of the Chicago Democratic machine with ties to the Obama administration, Rahm Emanuel's bid for Chicago mayor and many other aspects of the Chicago political landscape.