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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: It's $20 million no-bid for Supes to Nuts with Gary Solomon in Chicago

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: It's $20 million no-bid for Supes to Nuts with Gary Solomon in Chicago:

It's $20 million no-bid for Supes to Nuts with Gary Solomon in Chicago

Supes Academy principal training in Chicago
The men who run Supes have, shall we say, a somewhat questionable track record. And all this in a city where major, well-respected universities already train principals, where 49 schools have shut down and others are losing teachers, classroom aides, clerks, lunch ladies and other workers and programs right and left, to the tune of $68 million in cuts -- or $82 million, depending on whose math you believe. -- Lorraine Forte at Huffington

A few principals attending the Chicago Supes training now in progress are texting me, telling me what a joke it is. It's not that the sessions are all that bad. It's that the principals themselves have taken it over. They are running it -- "sharing stories," they text me.

"Inmates have taken over the asylum," says one south-side principal. The joke is that BBB has given huckster Gary Solomon and his team a $20 million no-bid contract to run this thing. Supes, she says, brings nothing to the table. Any one of a number of local groups or