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New CPS CEO Byrd-Bennett does well by the CEO circuit. A revolving door of payouts. « Fred Klonsky

New CPS CEO Byrd-Bennett does well by the CEO circuit. A revolving door of payouts. « Fred Klonsky:


New CPS CEO Byrd-Bennett does well by the CEO circuit. A revolving door of payouts.


Chicago teachers, who lost some ground on the issue of  sick and personal days in the last contract, might find an ally in the new CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
Byrd Bennett has done rather well on the CEO circuit – New York, Cleveland, Detroit. Among the rewards she was given when she left her Cleveland job was a payout of 140 sick days for the seven years she was there.
When she left Cleveland in 2006, the Pain Dealer reports,

Barbara Byrd-Bennett’s goodbye as Cleveland schools chief executive won’t be quiet or cheap.

Tonight she’ll be lavished with gifts from the school board and saluted by luminaries. Mayor Frank Jackson, U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and 



A rich, white guy who works for a right-wing think tank just can’t catch a break these days.


Fordham’s Mike Petrilli is haunted by his decision to move to the suburbs.
Michael Petrilli is the vice president of the Fordham Foundation, a think tank on the far-right edges of school reform.
And it haunts him.
What haunts him?
No. Not being the VP at Fordham. Although that’s what would haunt me.
He is haunted by his decision to move to the suburbs of Washington DC so his kids can attend an all-white suburban school with other white rich kids.
And what does anybody do who is haunted by such a decision? Petrilli wrote a book about it so that others