Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he actually welcomes criticism and ideas from Chicago Public Schools principals, contrary to recent blog posts and an oped accusing the mayor and his administration of silencing CPS principals.
Emanuel told this to the Chicago Sun-Times after the paper published a Letter to the Editor from Chicago principal Troy LaRaviere, which criticized city officials for micromanaging and ignoring CPS principals. After the piece was published, LaRaviere called on other principals to respond on his blog.
“If a principal has a concern or an idea, [schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett’s] attitude, my attitude is, ‘We want to hear about it if there are concerns,’ ” the mayor told the Sun-Times.
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