Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Barbara Byrd-Bennett

Educator and former Chicago Public Schools superintendent

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1951

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: chief executive officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Barbara Louise Byrd–Bennett (born July 27, 1949) is an American educator, education administrator, former school superintendent and convicted felon.
Byrd-Bennett is the former chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Cleveland Municipal School District.
She served as CEO of the Cleveland schools from 1998 to 2006.
From 2009 to 2011, she was the academic and accountability officer for the Detroit Public Schools system.
She was hired as the chief education advisor for CPS in April 2012 and then named CEO by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel six months later.She resigned from CPS in 2015 amid a bribery investigation, which led to her pleading guilty to multiple charges.
In 2017, Byrd-Bennett was sentenced to 4 1/2 years at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson in West Virginia.