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Payne, Mazany to plot course for Chicago schoolsPosted By Rebecca Harris and Lorraine Forte On Friday, February 11, 2011
In CPS Administration
In CPS Administration
For the first time in almost a year, Chicago schools have a chief education officer.
Friday morning, Interim CEO Terry Mazany named Charles Payne, the highly regarded expert on urban education policy and a University of Chicago professor, as an interim replacement for 35-year CPS veteran Barbara Eason-Watkins, who left the district in late April 2010.
It is also the first time in recent memory that the district’s top two positions have both been filled by educators, which grassroots activists and parents have clamored for. But it’s not likely to last long: Payne says he is definitely leaving after a