Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Civil rights advocate Payne appointed CPS chief educator

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Civil rights advocate Payne appointed CPS chief educator

Civil rights advocate Payne appointed CPS chief educator

by Mike Klonsky

Interim Chicago schools chief executive Terry Mazany has appointed Charles Payne, a University of Chicago sociology professor and author of “So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools.” to the position of Chief Education Officer. Payne is a long-time social-justice advocate who also authored one of the best histories of the Civil Right Movement, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface.

The post has been vacant since the departure of