Retired Chicago teacher Ken Previti notes that the Chief Accountability Officer and the Chief Financial Officer have resigned their positions at the Chicago Public Schools.
Perhaps Mayor Rahm Emanuel is beginning to wish he had an elected school board, instead of mayoral control. All the chickens seem to be coming home to roost (or as Ken Previti puts it, the rats are deserting a sinking ship).
Emanuel’s first pick as school superintendent was a flop. His second pick was indicted for being part of a multimillion-dollar theft, has admitted her guilt, and is awaiting sentencing. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the Mayor can’t cut teachers’ pensions, which are guaranteed in the state constitution.
The Chicago Way of cronyism doesn’t seem to be working well these days.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Rahm needs to jump ship himself. He won’t have the protection of his buddy Barack soon so his political viability is rapidly diminishing. He devastated Chicago schools for his corporate buddies and is a lousy mayor who is too busy trying to run public Ed into the ground instead of dealing with city problems like crime, homelessness, lack of jobs and segregation. Jump now Rahm while you can. Evidence of your illegal activities may surface soon.
Rahm is banking that Hillary Clinton will be our next president, and she will provide him with his free Get Out of Jail card.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-05/clinton-voices-confidence-in-rahm-emanuel-as-chicago-mayor
In contrast to Sanders, who thinks anyone associated with the cover-up should resign:
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/1153811/bernie-sanders-calls-justice-probe-chicago-police-department-resignations-officials-involved-coverup
Never let the facts get in the way of silly metaphors and sillier speculations. Barbara Byrd Bennett is not today “in jail.” She is probably this morning living at her home in Solon Ohio. She is waiting until her next court date in January, when the Justice Dept. will let the judge know if she has ratted out enough of her former conspirators to earn a reduced sentence. Ginger Ostro (the former CPS Chief Financial Officer) was always kept away from the true power of that office by the various Rahm appointees (Tim Cawley for the most part, now gone) and always had better things to do than remain mixed up with CPS for too long. John Barker (the now former Chief Accountability Officer) was brought to Chicago from Memphis by Byrd Bennett and has no departed back to his home there (I doubt he ever settled on a home in Chicago).
Enjoy the speculations of others if you wish, but not if you wish to be taken seriously about the complex realities of power in Chicago — and in Chicago’s public schools.