<http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=3019> >From the Crain's Chicago Business Newsroom CPS names chief education officer € August 03, 2001 As part of a move to install his own administration, newly appointed Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan Friday named Barbara Eason-Watkins, a longtime principal at a South Side elementary school, as the chief education officer for the CPS. In her role, Ms. Eason-Watkins, 45, will oversee curriculum, instruction and all of the principals and teachers in the system. She replaces Cozette M. Buckney, who will remain with the system, although it is not clear what her position will be. Mr. Duncan replaced Paul Vallas, who resigned the position in June under pressure from Mayor Richard Daley, who was displeased with the slow pace of school reform. At a news conference Friday morning, where the announcement was made, Mr. Duncan praised Ms. Eason-Watkins for her real-world experience. "She is not an educational theorist or a bureaucrat," he said. Ms. Eason-Watkins, a Detroit native, spent one year teaching in Michigan and 11 years teaching in Chicago. She was principal of Mollison Elementary School on the South Side for three years, then moved to McCosh Elementary School in the Woodlawn neighborhood, where she has been principal since 1988. -- This is the CPS Science Teacher List. To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For more information: <http://home.sprintmail.com/~mikelach/subscribe.html>. To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/science%40lists.csi.cps.k12.il.us/>
