Robert Runcie was the Chief Information Officer, Chicago Public Schools (2007-2008)
Runcie friend named to high-paying school post
A Chicago transplant named Maurice Woods is expected to be approved as the School Board's new "Chief Strategy and Operations Officer." Woods' salary is set at $170,000, making him one of the highest paid board employees of all.

Woods isn't the first associate of Runcie's from Chicago to follow him to Broward. Runcie created a public information officer position when he arrived. Chosen among numerous applicants for that job was Tracy Clark, who also worked with Runcie at the Chicago Board of Education. Her salary: $122,000.

Maurice has seventeen years of success in entrepreneurial, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining Chicago Public Schools in November of 2004, Maurice served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Harvest Advisors, a Chicago-based management education firm focused on value creation for mid-sized service companies. Previously, Maurice had been principal consultant for IBM (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers – Management Consulting Services), specializing in developing and implementing corporate and operational strategies for Fortune 500 companies.
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The superintendent of the Broward school, Robert Runcie, who worked alongside former Education Secretary Arne Duncan in the Chicago Public Schools, was the leading force behind instituting new practices within the district for handling student behavior issues without resorting to law enforcement involvement, which quickly became a national model for ending zero-tolerance policies in schools. Student-related arrests, Runcie's bio shows, are down by 65 percent since he came to Broward County.

But in the letter to DeVos and Sessions, Rubio posits that it may be these policies, spurred by the Obama administration's guidance, that allowed the gunman to skirt law enforcement despite a well-known history of displaying disturbing behaviors.
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Good read...
The $100 Million Parkland Boondoggle Broward Schools Doesn't Want You to Hear
Kenneth Preston is another side of the Parkland shooting story. The hushed-up school-safety side. This 19-year-old home-schooled Broward County student isn't about guns, isn't interested in feeding into the election-year politics of any party's agenda, hasn't gathered admiring Hollywood friends to bankroll a national revolt.

All he's done since the Valentine's Day serial shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is spend more than 100 hours searching through thousands of pages of local government documents that most taxpayers would never dream of reading.

The story first was reported by DML News but avoided by most mainstream media who chose instead to expend their resources on the Washington anti-guns march. Immediately after the story became public, Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie tweeted out a message calling it "fake news."

What Preston alleges is that the Broward school system, superintendent and School Board members in particular, are directly responsible for shooter Nikolas Cruz and the student and teacher deaths not only by their liberal policies, but by holding back money directly intended to address school safety.

“In 2014, Superintendent Runcie successfully convinced Broward residents to vote on $800 million in bonds for Broward County Public Schools to invest back into the schools. According to The Qualification Selection Evaluation Committee (QSEC), an anti-corruption measure, there should be a committee of 11 people, five of whom are members from the public, that would decide what companies were given lucrative contracts to manage that $800,000,000 in voter approved projects. Just a year later, Runcie, who was tasked with bringing transparency to the board, moved to bypass those anti-corruption measures by removing members of the public from voting on who received the contracts..."
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