By: Kobie
Brizard’s unpopularity with the teacher’s union is CLEARLY why he was a top candidate for the Chicago job. And good riddance to bad trash. The guy was a fucking awful superintendent.
View ArticleBy: mclaren
This interview with David Simon, producer and one of the writers of the HBO show The Wire, says it all: One of the themes of The Wire really was that statistics will always lie. Statistics can be made...
View ArticleBy: sukabi
@Karen: way to shift the focus of what aimia was saying… learn to read sarcasm / snark. The idea that there are gifted kids who deserve a publicly financed private education away from those loser non...
View ArticleBy: Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937
This post nails Brizard perfectly. I watched him lie about his commitment to Rochester one week before announcing moving to Chicago. People like him are scum.
View ArticleBy: Morat20
Superintendents are hired by school boards. School boards are a collection of people elected in a small election in which few people vote, and most of those don’t know who they’re voting for. The...
View ArticleBy: gelfling545
In Rochester, Chicago & here in Buffalo are there serious educators who really WANT the job of superintendent? These schools have issues that have become ingrained over decades and School Boards...
View ArticleBy: mellowjohn
@Morat20: in chicago, the school CEO (not called the superintendent!) is chosen be the mayor. as are members of the board of ed.
View ArticleBy: Tim Furman
Hey, thanks for writing this post. The Obama administration has co-opted an extremely right-wing, pro-privatization, pro-testing school agenda, and those of us who write primarily about ed policy...
View ArticleBy: socratic_me
@iriedc: All charter schools are not a scam. My response to this is slightly different that that given by others. Saying not all charter schools are a scam misses the point. Not all public schools are...
View ArticleBy: Comrade Luke
The local (Seattle) news just reported that the Seattle school superintendent (Goodlow-Johnson is her name) who got fired a couple of months ago is a finalist for the same role in Newark. It just...
View ArticleBy: sukabi
@Comrade Luke: She came from the Charleston, SC school district where my sister worked a couple of years ago… Goodlow-Johnson was a nightmare, know nothing and caused lots of problems for the district...
View ArticleBy: grooft
@Karen: A: to the suburbs. Bethesda if you are rich enough or Fairfax if less rich but still rich enough. Rhee brought scores up by keeping more higher socio-economic parents in the public school...
View ArticleBy: jerry 101
What all the kerfluffle about Brizard misses is the fact that Chicago has made slow, steady, year-in, year-out progress in improving outcomes. 4 year graduation rates for incoming freshman 10 years...
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[...] One of my favorite blogs has a good comment on a phenomenon that has always fascinated me. It points to the prevalence of fast talking, silver tongued con artists failing in highly paid positions...
View ArticleBy: pfunk
@subaki – I agree with you about vouchers, but there’s no such thing as a “private charter school.” Charter schools are, by definition, public, and have to accept all students until their seats are...
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