Another Chicago Guy as Sec of Education

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78

maybe he is a great pick, but i must be missing something. what is it about the Chicago public schools that we want to copy over to the national level?

or was it mainly that he was a Harvard school chum, neighbor, and basketball partner of Obama?

I saw some good things written about him so I have an open mind, but jeez you would think that you pull people from systems that are acheiving something.

That is what I thought but I guess the CPS has taken great strides recently according to the news. I have a friend that teaches for the CPS and he told me a while back that things were getting better.....