Chicago Public Schools’ aggressive tactics for removing principals under the microscope – WBEZ (Chicago)

In the past four years, nine principals have been removed pending discipline or investigations into “serious misconduct,” according to CPS’s response to a public records request. Of those, six are Black men — who are already scarce among principals. The remaining three are a Black woman, a white woman and a white man. CPS didn’t list several more principals because they were either interim, left while under investigation or were immediately fired.
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Fullbladder
2 years ago

What does race have to do with it!? Are some race’s standards of right-and-wrong different than others?

Giddyap
2 years ago

FACT: Firing any black principal is structural racism

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