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Comings & Goings: CASEL, Burnham Park Network
By: Debra Williams / March 22, 2012
Paul Goren
Paul Goren has been appointed vice president for research and knowledge utilization at the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Previously, Goren served as a senior advisor to Chicago Public Schools and prior to that, was the director of the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. Goren has also worked for the Spencer and the MacArthur foundations.
Jennifer Schneider is the development director at CASEL. Previously, she worked at the Chicago Public Education Fund, where she led investment relations and managed grant-making activities.
John Price, CPS deputy chief of schools, has been named chief of elementary schools for the Burnham Park Elementary Network. Price is a former principal of Audubon Elementary.
Marvin Hoffman, an associate director of the University of Chicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program, is the co-editor of a new book, “Starting Up: Critical Lessons from 10 New Schools.” Three of the 10 profiles are on Chicago schools: North Kenwood Oakland Charter School, Social Justice High School and the City as Classroom Charter School.
why did Principal Luis Soria
why did Principal Luis Soria leave Mitchell School? I just read somewhere that he left last week. Please dont tell me another great principal has Network Chief. I cant take it anymore!!!
Evaluation Process and Racism
When a new principal evaluates his new staff and lowers mostly all of the non-African American staffs rating what can be done? There are many things going on in this school that could get this new principal in hot water.
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm
First, is it me or does the U of C run the city schools? Seems like most in leadership at CPS and in the charter schools and these corporate teacher and principal leadership hives are linked somehow to U of C. Has anyone picked up that U of C academicians are out of touch with reality?
Second, I don't know how many but on the news Brizard stated that there will be a push to open MORE charter schools. So, is not his wife a mover and shaker in the charter movement? Cha-ch$ng! Their money is MADE!
Why would any PUBLIC school leader endorse a need for more charter schools when his job is to improve the public school system? Too many politicians involved to with a mayor who endorses charter schools. As the PUBLIC leader he should also be working to make the city better by improving it's institutions. Really, the mayor needs to get out of education. We need to vote our folks in. Has anyone noticed that Rahm and Wil E Coyote bear a slight resemblance?
Finally, how can anyone respect a city governing system that says it has to do national searches to fill city positions? Arne, Rahm, and so many others basically dissed native Chicago workers at all turns.
Oh, and why are kids running CPS. I have more years of teaching than the average administrator has of life it seems. Oy!
Charter schools are public
Charter schools are public schools. Except that they are exempted from many state education laws and large portions of the IL School Code.
Charter schools are public schools. Except, unlike public schools, they can cherry pick certain types of students and dispose of others for things like poor academic performance or the inability to pay fines imposed for wearing the wrong color belt to school.
Charter schools are public schools. Except that their finances are not by law open and available to scrutiny by the taxpayers.
Charter schools are public schools. Except that many of them are run for profit.
Charter schools are public schools. Except that education management organizations would rather close a school than allow it to unionize.
Charter schools are public schools. Except that they claim they are not when confronted with rules and laws they don't like.
Charter schools are public schools. Except that they are not run by the entity responsible for public education in Chicago - District 299 and the Board of Ed.
Oh, I could go on and on and on...
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