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Friday, June 21, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The new 'CPS Way' smells like the old 'CPS Way'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The new 'CPS Way' smells like the old 'CPS Way':

The new 'CPS Way' smells like the old 'CPS Way'


Last week, as she was closing dozens of neighborhood schools and slashing school budgets at the rest, Byrd-Bennett rolled out the new-and-improved CPS 5-year plan and a new mantra, now called The CPS Way. It comes neatly packaged, complete with slick brochures and videos. But a little scratch-and-sniff reveals that the new  "CPS Way" is the old CPS Way.

Quick, call in the IG to clean up this mess and get Liar-In-Chief Becky Carroll for damage control. This time it's all about replacing Chartwells -- the food service company CPS hired tofeed our kids pink slime, to Aramark, the food service company Leslie Fowler used to work for in Rochester.