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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The Educated Reporter: Politics and the Facebook billions.

The Educated Reporter: Politics and the Facebook billions.

Politics and the Facebook billions.

Michelle Rhee is most likely leaving now that Mayor Adrian Fenty was voted out. Depending on whom you read, Ron Huberman may or may not leave Chicago Public Schools now that Mayor Richard Daley is stepping down. It makes sense that much of the journalistic attention about mayoral control to date has focused on what it means for governance while the mayor-schools chief partnership is strong and the mayor is, well, the mayor. But I’m wondering now why little has been written anticipating this aspect of things—asking what might happen if some of that falls apart.

Whatever affect it has on decision-making, putting the school chief’s fate in the hands of a mayor is not