Principal resigns his position of the #1 rated neighborhood school in Chicago in open letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel

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Behind this significant accomplishment are a series of basic concepts based on empirical evidence regarding effective school practices and thoughtful consideration of how we might apply those practices at Blaine.

The difficult part was mustering the will and stamina to remain steadfast in our commitment to use evidence-based practice in the face of tremendous pressure -- from politicians like you -- to adopt baseless "school reform" ideas like "tracking" (school based selective enrollment), "choice," and the over-evaluation of teachers ; ideas that are grounded in ideology and politics as opposed to proven effective educational methods.

One might think that after witnessing the unprecedented academic gains of Blaine students, you and your appointees might call on my school leadership team to help you understand how we improved at such an incredible rate.

In just six weeks since since I became its president, the CPAA has saved the Illinois Administrator Academies for principals after your appointees at CPS attempted to sabotage the program ; made significant amendments to the Education Platform of the Democratic Party ; worked with principals to form action teams that will influence city and state education policy ; built relationships with elected officials in order to create access to the legislative process ; created the foundation and framework necessary to build a democratic representative structure for both CPAA governance and input in CPS decision-making ; joined with the engineers and teachers to oppose your wasteful expansion of absentee facilities management under Aramark and SodexoMAGIC, and started a news service that keeps school leaders informed by providing them with a thematic summary of the week's education and political news.

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