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Doubts cast on CPS exec's residency waiver

Inspector general urges board to rescind permission for No. 3 official to live outside Chicago

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

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By Joel Hood and Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Tribune reporters

October 25, 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