Arne Duncan is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools. Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed Duncan to his current post on June 26, 2001. He was previously Deputy Chief of Staff for former Chief Executive Officer, Paul Vallas. // CEO and corporate governance Main article: corporate governance Although it is possible to have more than one CEO in a company, generally the job is not shared. ... Chicago Public Schools (commonly abbreviated as CPS) is a school district that controls over 600 public elementary and high schools in Chicago, Illinois. ... Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) has been Mayor of Chicago since 1989. ... Paul Vallas is currently the CEO of the School District of Philadelphia. ...
ArneDuncan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1987, majoring in sociology.
ArneDuncan returned to Chicago in 1992 to direct the Ariel Education Initiative, which seeks to create outstanding educational opportunities for inner-city children on the City’s South Side.
Duncan has avoided the spotlight in favor of a quiet, thorough, more studied approach to the problems of the nation's third-largest school system.
Duncan also is analyzing whether all magnet schools deserve that status, and whether new magnet schools or programs that base admissions on test scores should be added to the city's West and South sides.
While Duncan unleashed the biggest school accountability hammer to date last week, he also is developing a one-page report card that will put accountability in the hands of parents by summer.