By RiShawn Biddle
(Dropout Nation, June 13th. 2012)
One can’t say that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel hasn’t aggressively embraced predecessor Richard M. Daley’s mantle as chief school reformer. Since becoming the top executive of the Second City, the former Wall Streeter, congressman, and Obama administration chief of staff has pushed tirelessly to expand the city’s collection of charter schools, argued for increasing the time students spend in school (and the time teachers spend in instruction), and has enacted a new set of rules allowing the district to use teacher performance data in layoff decisions. As a result, Emanuel has the opportunity to set a standard for reform-minded mayors the way predecessor Daley and Rahm’s soon-to-be outgoing counterpart in New York City, Michael Bloomberg, have done.
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