Update: More About Payne - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Update: More About Payne - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Update: More About Payne

by Alexander Russo

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Charles Payne

Last week's post about the appointment of Charles Payne as CAO generated lots of concern and even anger among commenters about Payne's U of C connections and his academic field of sociology but, having listened to this audio tape of a recent speech Payne gave (yes, at the UofC) made me think Payne isn't necessarily the person that people might think he is. He's informal rather than snooty. He's helping with the Englewood promise zone initiative. He talks