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Flashback: Robert Runcie leaving Chicago to become chief of Broward County Florida schools
Substance News ^ | Sept 17 2011 | George N. Schmidt

Posted on 03/22/2018 3:29:05 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper

Less than three months after he was demoted and then laterally moved at part of Chief Executive Officer Jean-Claude Brizard's shakeup of the Chicago Public Schools central administration, Robert Runcie will be leaving Chicago to become superintendent of the Broward County school district in Florida. Runcie, who was brought into Chicago's public schools by former CEO Arne Duncan in 2003, had most recently served as "Chief of Staff" to Board President David Vitale. Prior to that, Runcie held various posts at the top of the CPS hierarchy, including Chief Information Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. Brizard pushed him aside in favor of Tim Cawley, who is the current Chief Administrative Officer. Runcie had also served as a Chief Area Officer (CAO) for a short time. He had no CPS teaching or administrative experience when he was brought in by fellow Harvard Alumnus Arne Duncan early in Duncan's term as CPS CEO.

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I found this when I googled "Robert Runcie Chicago". With other articles about this person and his policies in Broward being shared here recently, I thought it important to share this one as well. This one highlights the fact that his appointment to run Broward schools took place with a certain amount of concern and controversy.
1 posted on 03/22/2018 3:29:05 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper
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To: OttawaFreeper

Good choice!!!! everyone into the cesspool!


2 posted on 03/22/2018 3:39:35 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Broward Superintendent Runcie gets salary, benefits …
www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-runcie-to-make-higher-salary...
Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie will get a $28,000 raise and additional benefits under a contract approved by the School Board on Tuesday. The deal brings Runcie’s salary to $335,000 and extends his employment through June 30, 2023.


3 posted on 03/22/2018 4:44:38 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: OttawaFreeper

WHERE IS THE DEMAND FOR FEDERAL AND STATE INVESTIGATIONS ????
They’re missing the point It’s not guns or the NRA It’s policies which had cops standing outside while killing was going on or some nut getting a gun the FBI knew he wasn’t suppose to... Plus a whole raft of other stuff
THE MEDIA IS DOING THIS BECAUSE
THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENED
STOP SPREADING THE CABLE SWILL MILLS POISON
DEMAND STATE AND FED INVESTIGATION ON THE POLICIES WHICH CAUSED THIS
http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm


4 posted on 03/22/2018 5:00:12 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: ronnie raygun

Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie Ducks Blame For “Lost” $2.5 Million, Then Takes Junket-—BY BUDDY NEVINS

What did Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie do after announcing this week that he can’t find $2.5 million missing from the school police budget?

He didn’t admit responsibility. He didn’t take the blame.

Instead, Runcie hightailed it to St. Petersburg for a junket......Other than disclosing the association gave Broward a grant, Runcie kept mum about the cost of the three-day road trip. Presumably the 10 higher-ups – who all make six-figure salaries – are continuing to collect their pay.

The trip came one day after Tuesday’s School Board workshop when it was disclosed that the school police department is $2.5 million in the hole for this fiscal year. Only $50,000 remains in its budget.

Perhaps most shocking: Runcie’s repeated admission that despite an investigation that has been going on for more than a month, administrators still don’t know where the money went. Runcie also repeatedly refused to accept responsibility despite intense grilling by School Board member Robin Bartleman at this week’s meeting.

Bartleman: “As the CEO of the sixth largest school district in the nation with an over $2 billion budget, how do you not have internal controls to find the budget is overspent by $2.5 million?”.....

Runcie is not able to stop $2.5 million from going missing, but he does an exquisite job of bobbing, weaving and denying responsibility.

Some Responses:

How can a CEO get away with not knowing where 2.5 MILLION went?

Runcie is incompetent and should be terminated with cause negating any severance payout.

Runcie and his criminal crew are living high on the hog while the people of Broward slip into poverty and ignorance.

Broward will take decades to recover, if it ever can! The lack of education taking place is absurd. Students and their education are not even on Runcie’s radar. That is why all the crimes against students are allowed and covered up to protect his clique

The mob from Chicago at work and relaxation.

All of the other 66 counties have taxpayers and citizens and voters that are not asleep at the switch and nip the backroom deals in the bud...Not Broward..

Broward is a cesspool of corruption. You morons keep voting in the same criminals. Runcie is from Chicago, the same place the criminal in chief O’Bama is from. Why are you people surprised? You deserve to work an extra 20 years just to pay for your idols antics.


5 posted on 03/22/2018 5:02:42 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: OttawaFreeper

Yeah, he will fix sh*t, huh?
Someone better research the sh*tty arse Chicago public school system yo.....


6 posted on 03/22/2018 5:36:21 AM PDT by cranked
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Runcie’s job is to steal money and distribute it out to designated receivers. The school system budget is actually a money pot from which to pay political favors.

He’s from Chicago. He’s a democrat. He’s a crook

Lots of them need to be shot


7 posted on 03/22/2018 5:41:09 AM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie Ducks Blame For “Lost” $2.5 Million, Then Takes Junket-—BY BUDDY NEVINS

Source and date please.


8 posted on 03/22/2018 6:05:57 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Steven Scharf

You are unable to search a title on your own?... takes 3 seconds

https://www.browardbeat.com/broward-school-superintendent-robert-runcie-ducks-blame-for-lost-2-5-million-then-takes-junket/


9 posted on 03/23/2018 4:53:16 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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