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Rochester’s gain is Chicago’s loss. Rahm’s choice is a disaster. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Rochester’s gain is Chicago’s loss. Rahm’s choice is a disaster. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Rochester’s gain is Chicago’s loss. Rahm’s choice is a disaster.

Hyatt owner Penny Pritzker.

Union Hyatt housekeeper.

Chicago’s mayor-elect has made a hell of a blunder in his first appointments to run CPS.

Even The Chicago Tribune describes Brizard’s tenure as superintendent of Rochester, NY as “mired in questions and controversy.” Graduation rates, test scores and teacher morale all plummeted.

His choice of Penny Pritzker to sit on the school board? Amazing. Approaching a year of negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union, the new mayor selects a rabid union hater as a member of the board.