Halloween season is an appropriate time to talk about rattling skeletons in the closet. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears to have a noisy one dating from his years running the Chicago Public Schools. Her name is Carol J. Spizzirri. A little background. [http://illinois corruption.net/ documents/shop lifting.pdf].
Spizzirri is a convicted shoplifter. According to a sworn affidavit by her ex-husband, a court ordered psychological evaluation diagnosed her as a paranoid schizophrenic and pathological liar. [http://illinoiscorruption.net/documents/emotionalletter.pdf]
Spizzirri claimed to be a registered nurse and a renal specialist. Her alma mater, now defunct, denied giving her an RN and reportedly she has never been a registered nurse in either Wisconsin or Illinois, as she had claimed. [http://abclocal.go.com /wls/story section=news& id=4770490] One of her daughters filed a protective order against her because of alleged abuse. [http://www. scribd. com/doc/21508542 /5-4-92-Protective-Order- filed-by-my- daughter-Christina- Pratt- against-her-mother- Carol-J-Spizzirri]
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For his last column before he died, education critic Gerald Bracey wrote about a possible skeleton in Arne's closet:
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