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Article: The outsider comes in: what is the third-largest school district in the country doing with a young, non-traditional educator as its CEO? Well, according to whom you ask, Chicago Public Schools just might be carving out the template on how to run big, inner-city education.
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- District Administration
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- August 1, 2002
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Chicago loves its basketball, but that's not why former pro player Arne Duncan got his job.
Nor is the reason his age. Thirty-seven is old for an athlete, but when it comes to running the third-largest school system in the country, it seems young.
He is a bit shy of job experience, too. As the Chicago Tribune put it: "In three years with Chicago Public Schools, Duncan never had a high enough post to merit his own secretary." "Nobody really knows who he is," says Ray Quintanilla, a Chicago Tribune education writer describing the city's reaction to the announcement of its new public schools' CEO in the summer of 2001. "It was a surprise to a lot of ...