Column: The sacking of Troy will not help Emanuel

Blaine Elementary School Principal Troy LaRaviere, seen outside the Lakeview school in May 2014, was placed on "inactive duty" by the Chicago Board of Education on April 20, 2016. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, out of the loop again!

Wednesday, the mayor's handpicked Board of Education ousted one of his most prominent critics — award-winning Blaine Elementary School Principal Troy LaRaviere — in a distracting, inflammatory move that will cost Emanuel political capital at a particularly bad time.

Our news report on the "reassignment" of LaRaviere to inactive duty quoted a statement from Janice Jackson, the chief education officer for the Chicago Public Schools: "We did not consult the mayor in making this decision." It also quoted mayoral spokeswoman Kelley Quinn: "CPS handles its own personnel matters, with which the mayor does not interfere."

So I guess Emanuel found out about it just like everyone else: What? No way! Really?