Another top Forrest Claypool aide is out over CPS' residency rule

Another top aide to Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool is out over failing to move to the city, as required under CPS' residency rule.

Even before Matt Walter leaves his $140,000-a-year post, CPS has hired a new budget director to replace him - paying him nearly $30,000 a year more than Walter makes.

Walter, 36, was recommended for firing from his post in December, CPS acknowledges, after school system Inspector General Nicholas Schuler found that he lived in Evergreen Park.

But with CPS facing a financial crisis, Walter has been kept on.

Schuler declined to comment. But records show Walter submitted a letter of resignation in late January but is being allowed to remain in his job until March 31 - three months after Claypool and other top CPS officials were informed Walter's Chicago address wasn't really where he lives.

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