Back in April, a north-side resident named Nick Burt filed a public records request with Chicago Public Schools, seeking internal e-mails and other information regarding the firing of Troy LaRaviere.
It might as well have just given him the middle finger.
And let me tell you, Mayor Rahm and his school appointees are masters of this game.
CPS sent Dapier a batch of heavily redacted e-mails that were virtually impossible to read. However, the redactions were only computer generated highlights, and Dapier was able to remove them and see the e-mails that CPS didn’t want him to see. Those e-mails revealed that top CPS officials had ordered Persepolis removed from the shelves, contradicting the official CPS line that the book had been mistakenly banned by some unnamed central office bureaucrat who had misunderstood what he or she had been directed to do.
“Until I read about it on Facebook, I didn’t know anything about it,” he says.
On September 7, Burt and his lawyer, Daniel Massoglia, filed a lawsuit in Cook County court, demanding that CPS turn over the information he’d requested.
