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CHICAGO'S LAST HOPE.(Chicago may use school vouchers if educational reform effort fails)(Brief Article)

For urban Public schools, this is it: if Mayor Daley's reforms fail, get ready for vouchers PAUL VALLAS, CEO OF THE Chicago Public Schools (yep, that's his title), is starting to make some people mad, and it's about time. You could argue that the future of "education reform" -a phrase he cordially loathes - rests on his stooped shoulders. Vallas is making so many changes, so fast, that the onetime student of Russian history knows that certain Chicagoans "think I'm a Stalinist." If only other school superintendents were so lucky. In 1995 the Illinois State Assembly gave Mayor Richard Daley near-total power over the schools, and he hired Vallas and board chairman Gary Chico. The ...

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