CPS reverses course on controversial teacher applicant survey
By Rosalind Rossi Education Reporter July 21, 2011 7:08PM
Jean-Claude Brizard
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Updated: July 22, 2011 2:15AM
Chicago Public Schools officials Thursday did an abrupt about-face on implementing a controversial teacher-applicant test and said TeacherFit scores would no longer be used to automatically blacklist potential teachers.
In an e-mail, Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard told principals they could use TeacherFit scores however they wanted, and would be free to hire candidates whom CPS officials previously had eliminated from the candidate pool based solely on their TeacherFit scores.
The Thursday 6 p.m. e-mail followed a Thursday Chicago Sun-Times story concerning the deluge of complaints to