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Monday, February 25, 2013

Byrd Bennett has a second job - Substance News

Byrd Bennett has a second job - Substance News:


Rahm Emanuel's handpicked schools 'Chief Executive Officer', Barbara Byrd Bennett, has a second job working for Eli Broad against unions and public schools ... and the photographs of her works in Detroit show Chicago's future, despite the rhetoric and lies during the current 'underutilization' fight

Sometimes one picture is worth even more than 1,000 words, and in the case of the recent people imported into Chicago as "Chief Executive Officer" of the nation's third largest school system, the photograph above this article, taken in Detroit, shows what Chicago will be seeing in a few years when the "underutilized" school buildings that are being proclaimed by Barbara Byrd Bennett have been evacuated and all the plans and talking points are history. Anyone from Chicago can go to Detroit or Cleveland and learn more about the work of the latest CPS schools CEO, but apparently only one news service will be doing that.
Photo taken inside one of the many Detroit public schools that were closed during the past five years, as Barbara Byrd Bennett and others pursued the Broad Foundation's attack on urban public schools and teacher unions. Despite all the claims that "underutilization" is the problem and that schools will be closed according to a plan, the Broad administrators, mercenaries of the corporate "school reform" movement, move from city to city and are gone by the time people can see the results of some of their work. The picture above was taken inside one of the many closed Detroit schools in August 2012. Substance photo by Rich Gibson.In the ever twisting and turning fight for true public and transparent education in the City of Chicago, Substance News has obtained a document through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that shows a clear conflict of