Pushback may have killed Paul Vallas CSU appointment. His reputation as a fixer is odd since he has been fired from almost every job he has held. | Fred Klonsky

Pushback may have killed Paul Vallas CSU appointment. His reputation as a fixer is odd since he has been fired from almost every job he has held. | Fred Klonsky:

Pushback may have killed Paul Vallas CSU appointment. His reputation as a fixer is odd since he has been fired from almost every job he has held.

CSU board announcing yesterday it will not appoint Paul Vallas as school president, rejecting Governor Rauner’s pressure to do so.

I wrote yesterday about Paul Vallas and the move by Governor Rauner to appoint him as president of the financially challenged Chicago State University.

CSU  serves mostly African American and working class students.

Its financial challenges mainly come from the failure of the Governor to get a budget passed.

Some are now suggesting that we will never see a state budget passed while Rauner is Governor.

Now it seems that strong opposition to the Vallas appointment as delayed or killed it.

Chicago State University trustees on Monday put off a decision on whether to appoint ex-Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas to a 

Pushback may have killed Paul Vallas CSU appointment. His reputation as a fixer is odd since he has been fired from almost every job he has held. | Fred Klonsky:

This bill would stop charter school expansion in Illinois.

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State Representative Will Guzzardi has introduced legislation that would all but stop charter school expansion in Illinois. Guzzardi’s bill would block the opening of any new charter campuses in any school districts with the Illinois State Board