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It reflects city union busting efforts and Emanuel's war on public education.
Vitale is a former corporate boss. Among other positions, he was president and CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade, vice chairman of Bank One, executive vice president and vice chairman of First Chicago Corp, and held top positions at the First National Bank of Chicago.
His background reflects financial mismanagement and fraud. Emanuel chose him to swindle Chicago teachers, parents and kids like investors.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) head, Jean-Claude Brizard, earlier served as Rochester, NY school superintendent. His record was practically diabolic. Around 95% of teachers deplored him. He was named in two federal lawsuits. They alleged improper handling of budget cuts and school closures.
Earlier, he attended the notorious Superintendents' Academy of the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems. Corporate predator Eli Broad founded it to train administrators on restructuring and privatizing public education at the expense of teaching and educating kids.
Emanuel hired him to replicate what he did in Rochester. Elizabeth Swanson serves as deputy CPS chief of staff. Formerly she was billionaire Penny Pritzker's Traubert Family Foundation executive director.
It advocates merit pay, school privatizations, union busting, and other regressive education policies. Wrecking public education is policy. Emanuel prioritizes it. So does his team. They plan open-ended conversion of public schools to charter or for-profit ones.
They want them run by marketplace rules. They link teacher pay to student achievement. It's determined by standardized tests that measure rote memory, not real learning or preparation for higher education.
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