Is it possible that LSCs can and do work?

The death knell is ringing for Chicago’s local school councils, and it has been for years. But as it turns out, LSCs just won’t die. It’s not for lack of trying on the part of those who have the power and means to kill them.

Mayor Richard M. Daley took his best shot a year ago, when Curie High School’s local school council handed him a smoking gun in the form of a questionable decision not to renew the contract of a popular and competent principal...