Rahm Emanuel’s choice for new CPS boss. In February, Rochester teachers voted no confidence in their superintendent. Now he has come to Chicago.
An overwhelming number of Rochester teachers take a stand against their superintendent.
In a lopsided vote, some educators are telling Jean-Claude Brizard change your ways or change your job.
Nearly 82-percent of eligible teachers took part in today’s vote. The ballot was simple: “Yes, I have confidence in Superintendent Brizard” or “No, I don’t.”
It took hours to sort through boxes of ballots. Here are the results: just 140 teachers said they do have confidence in Brizard, compared to the more than 2713 who said they don’t. A vote like this has never happened in the history of the Rochester City School District.
“It’s very distracting from our jobs. It’s demoralizing. There’s a lot of back and forth in the press, and that’s not good for anybody,” said Debbie Jackett, a special education teacher at School No. 17.
Jackett says she’s never seen anything like it in her 20-plus years in education.
Fred Klonsky 
@@ they get shifted around, but teachers get to vote?
Wow, what a statement, both from Rochester teachers and Rahmbo. Amazing how contempt for teachers is a selling point for “reformers.”
Guess we better watch out here in Chicago.