Paul Vallas never met a natural disaster that he didn't make worse.

New Orleans, Haiti and Chile.

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans like a bomb.

Paul Vallas, former CEO of our Chicago public schools under Mayor Daley (2), was hired to create the nations first nearly all charter school system in New Orleans.

What followed was mass teacher firings, a teacher union destroyed and a public school system, the bedrock of a democracy, placed in the hands of private entrepreneurs with little or no public accountability.

Among public school privatizers, Vallas was the embodiment of what a later Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, said: “Never let a crisis go to waste.“

Arne Duncan, President Barack Obama's secretary of education, was among Vallas' trusted deputies when Vallas led the Chicago Public Schools and Duncan followed him as CEO of CPS

Talking about Hurricane Katrina assault on New Orleans and the Vallas led Recovery School District, Arne Duncan famously said that Hurricane Katrina was "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans."

What a pair.

Now Vallas in back in Chicago and on the ballot for mayor of Chicago along with County Commissioner and teacher union leader Brandon Johnson.

For me this is not a choice.

Paul Vallas should not be allowed anywhere near the 5th floor of City Hall.

When Vallas was running New Orleans schools, Chicago Tribune columnist and editorial board member Kristen McQueary wrote:

I find myself wishing for a storm in Chicago — an unpredictable, haughty, devastating swirl of fury. A dramatic levee break. Geysers bursting through manhole covers. A sleeping city, forced onto the rooftops.

That's what it took to hit the reset button in New Orleans. Chaos. Tragedy. Heartbreak.

An underperforming public school system saw a complete makeover. A new schools chief, Paul Vallas, designed a school system with the flexibility of an entrepreneur. No restrictive mandates from the city or the state. No demands from teacher unions to abide. Instead, he created the nation's first free-market education system.

Following up on his privatizing success in New Orleans, Vallas, ever the disaster entrepreneur, reinvented himself as the head of a business that would go into a country after a natural disaster -hurricanes and earthquakes - promising the corporate and banking vultures that he was the perfect choice to ensure that the disaster would not go to waste.

While still CEO in New Orleans he went to Haiti which had just been hit by a devastating earthquake.

Vallas skills as a privatizer made him the perfect choice to take charge of the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) education plans for Haiti.

“There’s a real opportunity here, I can taste it. That is why I’ve flown [to Haiti] so many times,” Vallas said.

Vallas’ plan for Haitian education centered on maintaining a system in which 90 percent of schools are private but with the Haitian government financing these private schools based on the charter school model Vallas delivered to New Orleans.

Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world.

After a devastating earthquake in Chile, Vallas saw another opportunity.

In 2011 Vallas signed a contract that paid his consulting group $500,000 to overhaul public schools in Chile.

Both projects were coordinated by the Inter-American Development Bank, which signed the $500,000 agreement for the Chile work with Vallas.

In response to the Chilean eduction reforms, tens of thousands of Chilean students hit the streets in protest.