University of Chicago professor Charles Payne will be announced Friday as the new chief education officer of Chicago Public Schools.
CPS
Interim CEO Terry Mazany will make the announcement at 10 a.m. at a news
conference at John Fiske Elementary School on the South Side.
Payne, a Frank Hixon professor at the U. of C’s School of Social Service Administration, confirmed the appointment.
“This is a moment of opportunity for Chicago. The agenda that Terry has laid out of high quality instruction and accountability is something I resonate with. I look forward to this opportunity,” Payne told the Defender before heading out to the news conference.
He’s an affiliate of the U. of C.’s Urban Education Institute, on the Steering Committee for the Consortium on Chicago School Research and was the founding director of the Urban Education Project in Orange, New Jersey.
Payne –– author of “Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure in Urban Education” and I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: the Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement –– holds a bachelor’s degree in Afro-American studies from Syracuse University and a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University.
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