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From Rochester to Chicago, reports — old and new — on Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel's choice for CPS' chief executive have emerged as a hot topic online this week. Newtips looks at Jean-Claude Brizard and his record with Rochester, N.Y., schools, and Emanuel's "most noteworthy appointment to the board of education," Penny Pritzker. Tim Louis Macaluso of the City Newspaper in Rochester, N.Y., reported in 2010 on Brizard's three years at the helm of the Rochester City School District. City Newspaper also published Brizard'sresignation letter.
Tribune columnist Eric Zorn writes Bizard's record in Rochester shows he'll fit right in in Chicago. "Can Rochester, N.Y., superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard pad a payroll? Skirt the rules? Spend frivolously? Distort statistics to make himself look good? Infuriate his constituents with a high-handed style? Check, check, check, check and check," Zorn writes.
Zorn also compiled a lengthy archives of stories/analysis about Brizard. Many
