More Falling Ed Reform Dominoes (This Time in LA) - What Could it Mean for Seattle?
Los Angeles Superintendent John Deasy told his district's top leadership that he would be leaving in a few months. He came from the Gates Foundation and is yet another Broad superintendent to get exited or who left a job. He has been on the job since 2011. Into this issue wades Robin Lake of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (basically a local think-tank for ed reform). She lauds Deasy for leaving "a comfortable job at the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation." Then she goes all in: In nearly any other sector, a man like Deasy—who is able to articulate a strong vision of change and pursue it relentlessly—would be able to get people to follow him and accomplish most anything. But this was LAUSD, where for decades strong leaders were eaten alive by the politics of race and unions and poverty and rampant district dysfunction. Note that ed reform jargon: dysfunction (again), politics of race and unions and poverty. Then she expla...