Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Predictable

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Predictable

Predictable

from Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog by Mike Klonsky

I need to get one of these red power ties.

Now sooner had I finished posting about Daley's likely interim pickand gone off to teach my class, than one of my students informed me that the Mayor appointed Terry Mazany as his new schools CEO. Shows you how plugged in I am.

No surprises here. Daley played it safe. Mazany will likely keep the seat warm until May, 2011 when a new mayor will pick what amounts to the district's third CEO in 6 months. He's currently president and CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, the city's second largest foundation and one of the district's biggest outside funders. The Trust served as the conduit for the Gates Foundation grant the supported the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative (CHSRI).

Mazany says he has no plans to become the permanent CEO. He told FOX that he will work on a briefing book for the next mayor and next chief of CPS so they can begin to work