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Brizard report card not so hot

I don’t know what was a bigger surprise – that a Chicago Board actually evaluated a CEO or that the Tribune reported on it.
To the best of my knowledge, no one ever evaluated Paul Vallas, Arne Duncan or any of the rest of them. In fact, most did not even have a contract, certainly not one like Brizard’s with an end date.
And yet there was the report, and it wasn’t too good:
  • The board gave Brizard low marks for the way he communicates and runs the district.

PURE member rates Brizard, throws in Rahm


You may remember back in December of 2010 when Linda Hudson filed an Office for Civil Rights complaint against the CPS student retention policy .
The OCR investigation is still underway and Linda still has her eye on CPS.
Here’s her great letter in today’s Sun-Times:
“Rahm Emanuel and Jean-Claude Brizard. Let me get this right, there has not been a Chicago