Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Updated July 20, 2004, 10:20 pm

Brenda Holmes/Barack Obama

This week's suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features Brenda Holmes, Deputy Chief of Staff for Education to Governor Rod Blagojevich

Next Week's guest on the suburban edition of "Pubic Affairs," is
the Candidate for the U. S. Senate from Illinois, Barack Obama (D- Chicago).

This week's (Week of July 19) suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features Brenda Holmes, Deputy Chief of Staff for Education to Governor Rod Blagojevich, debating and discussing with show host and legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz various education topics, including Out with the old, in with the new State Board of Education Members; firing State Board of Members on a showing of incompetence, malfeasance or neglect; trying to making the state educational bureaucracy more user friendly; Could Gov. Blagojevich have made the state educational bureaucracy more user friendly with his proposed conversion of the independent Board of Education to a Governor controlled agency? Are the customers of the Board of Education the teachers or the parents of students? Discretion with state education expenditures- Who has it? School choice- who should have (or have had) such choice? Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gov. Blagojevich, and/or low income minority parents in failing inner city public schools? Improving teacher competency-has it been done? School vouchers, school choice- A silver bullet to improve education for inner city children?

The suburban edition of "Public Affairs," is regularly broadcast every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.

The suburban edition also is broadcast every Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette and every Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.

The show with Deputy Chief of staff for Education Brenda Holmes will also air through-out the City of Chicago, at its usual time slot in the City, this coming Monday night, July 26 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV]

Partial transcripts of the show will be placed on the Public Affairs blog: www.jeffberkowitz.blogspot.com