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Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:54 PM EDT:: On the night of the VP debate, right at the end, this story breaks:
Chicago Public Schools chief exitsWGN News Desk | http://bit.ly/VXE3419:29 p.m. CDT, October 11, 2012 :: The CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Jean Claude Brizard, is out, according to the mayor’s office. Spokesperson Sarah Hamilton says that Brizard will be replaced by Chief Education Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
She called the decision to leave, “mutual.” Brizard had been in the position for approximately 17 months. |
This is huge.
The Chicago teachers strike was a gigantic blow to reformy types everywhere. The CTU and their dynamo of a leader, Karen Lewis, went to war for Chicago's students - not for the teachers, but their students. Understand that all of Chicago's elite lined up to oppose the union's gutsy stance, going so far as to buy off the Illinois legislature under a plan hatched by the smarmy Jonah Edelman.
The reformies failed miserably.
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Brizard was brought in to quell the rising tide of discontent among the plebes. A product of Eli Broad's little Los Angeles training camp, Brizard was a failure in Rochester before he headed off to the Windy City; what chance did he have in Chicago? None, it turns out:
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