Man honored for donating kidney may lose job

Dan Coyne donated a kidney to Myra de la Vega in March. He met her after choosing her checkout line at an Evanston grocery store because she was always so nice. (Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune / June 15, 2010)

By Julie Deardorff, Tribune reporter
7:27 p.m. CDT, June 15, 2010

On Thursday, Dan Coyne is slated to be honored as a humanitarian at a luncheon for Chicago Public Schools social workers. He plans to talk about his decision to donate a kidney to his favorite grocery store clerk.

By the end of July, however, Coyne may be out of a job unless he relocates from Evanston to Chicago.

Coyne received a letter Friday from the Chicago Board of Education saying he had violated the district's controversial residency requirement. The notice, signed by CPS chief Ron Huberman, states Coyne must move to Chicago by July 31 or face dismissal.

On Tuesday, Coyne remained characteristically upbeat despite having buried his 80-year-old mother, who died of pancreatic cancer the day before he received the termination notice. Earlier this month, he was featured in the official publication of the Chicago Teachers Union under a headline that reads: "Why is this man always smiling?"

But Coyne did say the notice "took his breath away" and he felt stung by the letter's standard statement that he has "exhibited conduct unbecoming an employee."

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unbecoming conduct?

Unbelievable.

:mad:

requiring state employees to live in the state that employs them (i.e., NYPD requiring officers to live in New York State - can't live in Jersey or CT) but to have to live in the district where you teach? Stooopid