![Barbara Byrd-Bennett](/wp-content/archive/images/2013/0313/power/300-300/79-barbara-byrd-bennett.jpg)
This 2012 hire didn’t make any critical mistakes during last fall’s teachers’ strike. Now she is trying to use the management skills she honed in Cleveland and Detroit to jump-start CPS. Whether she will exercise real authority or simply execute Rahm’s will is an open question.
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