CPS Chief Administrative Officer Tim Cawley lives in Winnetka. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / June 20, 2011)

The inspector general forChicago Public Schools is calling on district officials to rescind the residency waiver granted to Chief Administrative Officer Tim Cawley, the third-highest-ranking schools executive under Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

In a confidential memo circulating within CPS, the inspector general, James Sullivan says the Board of Education improperly granted Cawley a "special needs" residency waiver because of who he was and not