Sun Times, August 10, 2015:
"CPS already had announced $200 million in spending cuts, including $1 million in cuts from schools CEO Forrest Claypool’s executive office."
“Our goal is to protect pensions and to protect the classroom,” Claypool said during a conference call Monday morning. “To do that, it means everybody’s got to pitch in.”
Sun Times, August 11, 2015:
"In what’s likely to be a blueprint of his plan for the Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool will announce Wednesday that the district will no longer pick up pension contributions for its nonunion central office employees."
The pension flip-flop didn't take long. What about the $1M in cuts from the CEO's office?
Tribune, August 21, 2015:
"Chicago Public Schools chief Forrest Claypool has hired another of his former staff members from the CTA, this time an executive charged with oversight of the district's financial operations.
Ronald DeNard, formerly the CTA's chief financial officer, joins CPS on Friday as senior vice president of finance, according to an email Claypool distributed Thursday.
Each of the district's finance-related divisions will report to DeNard, Claypool said in the email. Those responsibilities were previously handled by Chief Administrative Officer Tim Cawley."
Oversight of the district's financial operations? Ginger Ostro, Chief Financial Officer, would be the person who oversees the district's finances. One would assume DeNard will collect a similar $205,000 salary that he earned at the CTA to take up space in CPS management.
If it sounds like Tim Cawley is out the door, don't get too excited. He'll continue his accounting and contractual fuck-ups with seven other departments he oversees:
"Cawley, a former Motorola executive hired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2011, will continue to supervise seven other administrative departments, according to Claypool's email...Cawley, who is paid $215,000 a year, oversees areas including facilities, food services and technology."
The other CTA hangers-on coming over to CPS:
- Doug Kucia - Claypool's Chief of Staff
- Andrell Holloway - Supervisor of Internal Audits
- Hal Woods - Portfolio Planning and Strategy Director
Six-figure bureaucrats moving from one city organization to another isn't "pitching in." If each of these managers will make a comparable salary at CPS, that's $800,000 back of the $1M cuts Claypool was crowing about ten days ago.
So he never actually cut his department; he just replaced his staff with new staff. And now there's two people to handle what Cawley previously handled...I thought the goal was to make central office leaner? Meanwhile, I don't foresee any replacements for the cut teachers and programs. Looks like we're the only ones with real "skin in the game".
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. The sad thing is that the people at the Sun Times and Trib are such suck-ups that they will never call Cesspool out on any of his lies. They'll report the cuts, but they won't report the wasted expenditures on losers like Doug Cuckoo. He must be using Jedi mind tricks on them.
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