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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

School Tech Connect: CPS Chief Has No Answers

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CPS Chief Has No Answers

Raise Your Hand has a press conference today at CPS headquarters, and Wendy Katten managed to catch CPS Chief Administrator Tim Cawley in an impromptu question/non-answer session. It's really quite remarkable--- first he admits that he's really not the man to talk to, and then it becomes clear that nobody really knows who the man to talk to is.

Wendy is relentless. Bear with the sound; I'm working with cell phone footage. Go full screen and crank it.

Popout Wendy Katten Questions Tim Cawley, Gets No Answers from Tim Furman on Vimeo.

I love how he suggests the network chiefs are the people to talk to. "They're all very talented people," he assures Wendy.

Let's just say I disagree. If they were talented people, they wouldn't have lost their shit so dramatically over an award-winning book like Persepolis  because "word got to" them about it. I've been around enough highly political