[4] At one point, Bogan was additionally the superintendent of the Chicago Athenaeum, which was a hybrid business college and high school.

[3] He also additionally served as the principal of the Knights of Columbus Free Evening Schools, which provided education for former servicemen and servicewomen.

[3][5] Bogan had been originally the preferred candidate of multiple Chicago Board of Education members for the superindendency, before McAndrew was selected in a compromise.

[2] Bogan put in place a program which helped to find jobs for the nearly 2,000 elementary school teachers who were played.

[2] In April 1932, Bogan ordered that all Chicago Public Schools students undergo periodic psychological evaluations, believing that this would increase safety and prevent crimes that could be attributed to mental conditions.

This came in the wake of a thirteen-year-old student that had exhibited "criminal tendencies", George Rogalski, murdering Dorette Zietlow, a child who was less than three years old.

The bomb left little damage, was believed to have been set up by racketeers seeking to organize small businesses against the cafeterias that were being operated in the city's middle and high schools.

[2] The library at Lane Tech High School, where Bogan served as the longtime principal, was dedicated to him.