This may only be a partial list of reasons; please, add anything else in the comments. The deadline to file to run for the Board is May 19th. Entire Board Majority NOT vetting the Superintendent in any way, shape or form. Even the Seattle Times thought that was wrong. It was just absolute hubris and it was wrong. For the second time in just over a year , board members voted to negotiate a superintendent contract during a special meeting with no opportunity for public comment. This time, they showed an even deeper disregard for their responsibilities as public servants: Aborting a national search for a new superintendent and denying Interim Superintendent Brent Jones a chance to show students, parents and taxpayers that, indeed, he is the best person for the job. Government bodies can’t fast-forward through transparent processes just because they think they know the right answer. One other odd thing about the hiring of Brent Jones - most permanent SPS superintendent contracts ar
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Joel Klein is stepping down as NYC Chancellor of schools after 8 years.
He will be replaced by incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black.
http://www.hearst.com/about-hearst/corporate-cathie-black.php
The New York Times
Tue, November 09, 2010 -- 3:56 PM ET
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Cathie Black, Publishing Executive, to Replace Joel I. Klein as New York City Schools Chancellor
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein is resigning and leaving city government and will be replaced by Cathie Black, the former publisher of USA Today and chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced this afternoon. Mr. Klein, in turn, will become the executive vice president of the News Corporation.
The mayor called Ms. Black "a superstar manager" and added, "There's no one who knows more about the skills our children will need to succeed in the 21st-century economy."
[{ but does this lady have even the slightest clue about how children learn or what teaching is really about?}] {The good news is she is likely not worse than MGJ}
The mayor lauded Mr. Klein for taking a "dysfunctional" system and turning it into "one that the Obama administration has hailed as a national model."
Read More HERE
And this line from the NYT story should get tongues wagging among our local Ed Privitization watchers.
"Mr. Klein, 64, said his job at News Corporation would be to develop “strategy to put them in the education marketplace.”
Lines of Influence
You can check the Broad and Gates infiltration via their own websites and other sources, such as:
faces of school reform
and:
http://techrights.org/2010/06/07/gates-family-us-franchises/
and:
Gates and DOE
And it is time we did another one, this time focusing on business interference in education...
This is cronyism... and more than that - its the final push to corporatise everything in this country...
Education and Social Security were the last quasi-public institutions left that had been roped off from capitalists...
Education has fallen to the vultures and social security will be next...
Oligarchy here we are...