From ednotes online. US Department of ED's former school district labeled a failure in Chicago. Best Way to get yourself labeled as a toughminded reformer is to be an utter failure

"Chicago should not lead the country by being at the bottom," he (Rahm Emanuel) said, to some cheers.

Emanuel's handpicked Chief Executive Officer for Chicago Public Schools, Jean-Claude Brizard repeated the talking points about the city's public schools that he has been using since his first meeting with the Chicago Board of Education on June 15, 2011. According to Brizard, the public schools of Chicago have become a failure after sixteen years of mayoral control under Mayor Richard M. Daley and his school chiefs (Paul Vallas, from 1995 to 2001; Arne Duncan, from 2001 into 2009; and Ron Huberman, from 2009 to late 2010). In every speech, Brizard lists the various reasons why Chicago's schools are "failing."

 

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