{"id":462963,"date":"2010-03-23T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a96a6668970b"},"modified":"2010-03-23T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:42:54","slug":"daley-says-his-office-had-no-role-in-jockeying-over-elite-school-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462963","title":{"rendered":"Daley says his office had &#8216;no role&#8217; in jockeying over elite school admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>UPDATED by John Byrne at 3:42 p.m. at Posted by John Byrne<\/em> at 12:47 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Richard Daley today said his office had &quot;no role&quot; in a back-door process to get students into select high schools, even though a list of such appeals shows multiple references to the Daley administration.<\/p>\n<p>In a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/education\/ct-met-cps-admissions-0323--20100322,0,5656688.story\"> story <\/a>today, the Tribune revealed the existence of a list maintained over several years by the office of former schools chief Arne Duncan that compiled requests from politicians, business people, and some non-connected parents looking to place children in highly competitive city schools.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>There were multiple references on the list to a top Daley education aide. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Asked what role his office played in the unpublicized appeals process, Daley said &quot;No role, in the sense that no role.&quot;<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&quot;As Arne Duncan pointed out, first of all, people are very frustrated with the system, how they get their children in all schools here in the public school system,&quot; Daley said.<br \/><\/br>\u00a0<br \/><\/br>Many of those who appear on the list had political patrons speaking to schools on their behalf, but Daley played down the notion that political clout was used.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&quot;Arne said people called. All types of people called,&quot; Daley said. &quot;Not just political people. Business people, parents and all that.&quot;<br \/><\/br>\u00a0<br \/><\/br>Schools CEO Ron Huberman is trying to develop a &quot;system fair to everyone&quot; to allow parents and others to appeal if students don&#8217;t get into the schools of their choice, Daley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED by John Byrne at 3:42 p.m. at Posted by John Byrne at 12:47 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley today said his office had &quot;no role&quot; in a back-door process to get students into select high schools, even though a list of such appeals shows multiple references to the Daley administration. In a story today, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}