Word: manford
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Nowhere is this more evident than in Chicago. Despite what Superintendent of Schools Manford Byrd calls a "flurry of ((reform)) activity," studies show that the dropout rate remains 46% overall and 56% for minorities. Earlier this year, Bennett declared Chicago schools to be the nation's worst. Critics claim that the reforms have been little more than lip service from a bureaucracy with no intention of changing. Those innovations that have made it into the classroom may have done more harm than good. The back-to-basics emphasis, for instance, makes no sense in a system that has already...
...made, the system faces a projected $46 million deficit. Convinced that no outsider could cope with Chicago politics, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the five black members of the city's eleven-member school board, pressed for the appointment of Chicago's veteran deputy superintendent, Manford Byrd, 52. But the other board members felt Byrd is too closely associated with past mismanagement to rebuild the school sys tem. Last week Chicago picked Ruth B. Love, 48, superintendent of schools in Oakland, Calif, and a former director of the Right to Read program. Love will be the nation...