New schools chief Brizard largely likable but often not liked
BY KIM JANSSEN AND ROSALIND ROSSI Staff Reporters Apr 25, 2011 2:08AM
Jean-Claude Brizard, incoming schools superintendent, listens to Rochester, N.Y., student introductions last year. | Shawn Dowd~rochester democrat & chronicle
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Ordered by Rahm Emanuel not to answer questions, Jean-Claude Brizard dodged the media for days.
Finally cornered in the corridors of the Rochester School District Thursday evening by a Sun-Times reporter, the man the mayor-elect picked to run the nation’s third largest school district beamed his winning smile, leaned in and asked, “How can I help you, without getting in
