- Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean Claude Brizard is out, to be replaced permanently by the school system's chief education officer, a spokeswoman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday.
Brizard, who has been the CEO for about 17 months, made a mutual decision with the mayor that it was best he leave the top school post, mayoral spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said.
"J.C. spoke with (School Board President) David Vitale and the mayor, and said 'I'm becoming a distraction. This is becoming more about me than it is about our mission to help the kids,'" Hamilton said.
Wow, he even fell on his sword for Rahm like a good Machine servant is supposed to. You'd think he was raised in Chicago the way he did it. Rahm must have promised him a good letter of recommendation of something,
Karen Lewis is chuckling somewhere.