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Monday, December 5, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago's new top charter school bureaucrat

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago's new top charter school bureaucrat:

Chicago's new top charter school bureaucrat

She's in a "relationship."
Her name is Carly Bolger. She's never taught, as far as I can tell. She's two years out of college. Hired by Chris Cerf to run his bloated and troubled charter schools bureaucracy in New Jersey but quit after just 10 months on the job. Emanuel then hires her to head his Office of New Schools. That position has been empty since Josh Edelman left town to work forMichelle Rhee in D.C.

T-Party Gov. Chris Christie has pushed for the rapid expansion of the state's charter schools despite strong evidence that they are under-performing traditional schools. A report by the Washington-based Center for Education Reform has slammed the application process for what it called its lack of transparency and object