Oliver Sicat, 32, was born in Santa Ana to Filipino immigrant parents, earned degrees from the University of Southern California and Harvard, created a successful non-profit education organization and is now is in the national spotlight for his role in Chicago's education reform efforts.
Today's New York Times features a story about Sicat, who is expected to be instrumental in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's efforts to close poor schools and increase the number of charter schools in that city.
One guess who might not appreciate Sicat's mission?
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According to the Times story, a teachers' union isn't happy that
the former award-winning LA, Boston and Chicago math teacher embraces privatization. Why? Fewer public schools means fewer public teaching jobs. Not surprisingly, Sicat's being dismissively hailed in these union quarters as “The
Closer.”
For that view, go HERE.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.