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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on November 16, 2009, 10:38:25 AM
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A preliminary investigation indicates Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education, apparently shot himself in the head along the banks of the Chicago River early this morning, sources say.
Scott's family had reported him missing on Sunday. Police used his cell phone to locate his body and his car behind the Chicago Apparel Center at 350 N. Orleans along the north branch of the river, police sources tell the Chicago Tribune.
He apparently fell forward after shooting himself, and the gun was found near the body, the sources say.
While police sources say it appears the gunshot wound was self-inflicted, the Cook County medical examiner's office was still conducting its investigation and hadn't determined how he died.
LINK (http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/man-found-dead-near-merchandise-mart-downtown.html)
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Sympathies to the family but it does look like he was facing a number of demons...
"...Scott was Mayor Daley's long-time go-to guy but raised eyebrows earlier this year when he disclosed to the Sun-Times that he had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating how students were selected for the system's elite selective-enrollment high schools.
Scott insisted he had done nothing wrong, but the system responded with a massive crackdown on college prep principals' ability to handpick up to five percent of their seats outside the normal selection process. An aide to Scott had requested such a pick at Whitney Young High School, but later withdrew the request at Scott's insistence, sources said at the time.
The furor emerged after Daley had appointed Scott to serve a second stint as school board president. Scott had recommended that sports agent Rufus Williams succeed him in that job, but Williams ruffled so many feathers that he resigned under pressure and Daley re-installed Scott to head the school board and oversee the city's public schools -- a top Daley priority.
Scott was an activist president, meeting on his own time with local residents, and even recently visiting troubled Fenger High School to personally observe an effort to bus kids from Altgeld Gardens to Fenger in the wake of the murder of Fenger honor student Derrion Albert. He was a calm and steady leader at sometimes raucous School Board meetings, often diffusing angry outbursts from the audience or speakers.
Scott, a West Side resident, also had served on the Mayor's 2016 Olympic committee and as former head of the Chicago Park District.
In August, he was forced to answer questions about his involvement in a development proposal near the the proposed Douglas Park Olympic site. He insisted he would not profit from the deal.
"I would not profit . . . not at all," Scott told reporters at a Chicago Board of Education press conference.
He was responding to a published report contending he was "potentially positioning himself to cash in" if the Olympics come to Chicago because he was helping a group of ministers try to turn some city-owned lots across from what could have been an Olympic site into affordable housing. Chicago eventually lost out to Rio de Janiero, which will host the 2016 Summer Games.
Scott noted at the time that the ministers, whom he said he has known for years, came to him with their development idea in the summer of 2006 -- a year before he was appointed to a committee that has been trying to bring the Olympics to Chicago. ..."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1886301,michael-scott-body-river-education-111509.article
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Sympathies to the family but it does look like he was facing a number of demons...
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1886301,michael-scott-body-river-education-111509.article
According to the comments at my link, Jesse Jackson was seen rushing to the scene to get in front of the cameras.
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According to the comments at my link, Jesse Jackson was seen rushing to the scene to get in front of the cameras.
Should anyone at all be surprised at that observation?
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According to the comments at my link, Jesse Jackson was seen rushing to the scene to get in front of the cameras.
Of course he was. ::)
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I bet Sharpton wasn't too far behind
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:jacked2:
Sometimes the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle are hard to pick out. Other times they jump right out at you.
I was looking at a thread on the dump which may be a piece of this puzzle, then again maybe not.
The article linked below:
Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality?
Spring 2009
Illustration: Michael Duffy
By Jitu Brown, Eric (Rico) Gutstein, and Pauline Lipman
<SNIP>
With the appointment by Barack Obama of Arne Duncan—a noneducator from the business sector who was Chicago's "chief executive officer"—as U.S. Secretary of Education, this phenomenon may repeat itself. For the past several years, Chicago's model of school closings and education privatization has received national attention as another beacon of urban education reform. This may have special relevance as the number of schools "identified for improvement" by NCLB criteria grows, numbering 11,547 nationally in the 2007-08 school year. Other school districts across the U.S. have already undertaken programs similar to Chicago's—New Orleans, in the wake of Katrina, has had a massive privatization of schools (see the special report on New Orleans in Rethinking Schools Vol. 21, No. 1), New York City has proposed closing and phasing out schools using criteria similar to Chicago's (e.g., test scores), and Philadelphia has followed suit as well, with a number of new charter schools. As Chicago Mayor Daley said in a 2006 press conference, "Together, in 12 years we have taken the Chicago Public School system from the worst in the nation to the national model for urban school reform." The Chicago Commercial Club's Renaissance Schools Fund Symposium, "Free to Choose, Free to Succeed: The New Market in Public Education," in May 2008, was attended by school officials from 15 states. The headline for a Dec. 30 article in the Washington Post claimed, "Chicago School Reform Could Be a U.S. Model." And outgoing Secretary Margaret Spellings praised Duncan as a national leader for his teacher incentive pay program.
Link to an article found at the dump link (http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/23_03/arne233.shtml)
Now why do I keep hearing the lines from a Jim Croce song "on the south side of Chicago" over and over in my head?
Oh yeah here is the dump link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7020375#7020971) for those brave enough. They are in a perfect snit about the "Meet The Depressed" appearance of Gingrich, Duncan and Reverend Al Sharpton. Lots of familiar primitives weigh in on this topic.
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A preliminary investigation indicates Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education, apparently shot himself in the head along the banks of the Chicago River early this morning, sources say.
How many times?
Chicago politics at its best?
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because he was helping a group of ministers try to turn some city-owned lots across from what could have been an Olympic site into affordable housing.
would that possibly include the Rev's Jackson and Sharpton?
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It's Zero's fault.
He's president, ain't he?
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Politics, Chicago style.