All Aboard Claypool Transfers Cta Pals To Cps

It’s budget season at the Board of Education, which means we’ve entered that twilight zone of misdirection where the bosses say one thing and do something else.

Then Lauren FitzPatrick, ace education reporter for the Sun-Times, revealed that DeNard lives in Flossmoor. So the board needed to give him a waiver on the requirement that school employees live in Chicago.

I’m gonna miss that unit, man.

Claypool needs advice on schools because he has no experience with them. Other than having attended a few. (I may have used that joke years ago in regard to Huberman, but it never really goes out of fashion with mayoral appointees at CPS.) The last CEO, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, didn’t have a senior adviser on school issues, presumably because, as a former principal, she didn’t need one.

Mystery solved!