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Illinois Schools Survey

The American flag hangs in a Peck Elementary School classroom Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, in Chicago. Illinois education officials expect more than a million students, parents and teachers to give opinions about what they like and dislike at school in a first-of-its-kind survey. The online survey began Friday and runs through March 31. A 2011 state law requires that children in grades 6-12 and teachers in all elementary and secondary schools be given the survey. They and parents can choose not to participate. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Re-Imagine Chicago: Obstacles To School Reform

Stanford political scientist Terry Moe argues that, while urban school systems are in desperate need of innovative reforms, productive change is often blocked by stiff resistance from education's vested interests — notably, teachers unions and school boards.

Moe joins Reset for the latest installment of our series “Re-imagine Chicago.”

GUEST: Terry Moe, William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; senior fellow, Hoover Institution; author of  The Politics of Institutional Reform: Katrina, Education, and the Second Face of Power

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