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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's going on down on Rahm's plantation?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's going on down on Rahm's plantation?:


What's going on down on Rahm's plantation?

Donoso's toast
Is anybody buying the story than Noemi Donoso"resigned" from her $195,000 post as the mayor's hand-picked chief education officer, after less than a year, in order to "pursue national projects.."?  Is that the new version of  "spending more time with my family"? She is the third top CPS officer to bail in less than three months.

And what timing -- right in the middle of union negotiations and Rahm's reckless move to impose his will, including a longer school day, on local schools. It was Donoso's job to ramrod the longer school day, push the Common Core curriculum, crack down on principals, and try and put a positive spin on miserably failed school turnarounds.

CTU Pres. Lewis calls it “troubling” that Donoso was leaving “at a time when seven or eight new initiatives have