The Big Picture, Part One - Meet the Aguirres
We all know - from photos, tv, etc - what a pixel is. It's a tiny picture element - a point - to a larger picture. You can't tell from one pixel what the picture is. Lately, I have been seeing several notable series of pixels that seem to be gathering speed to create the big picture. This is a profile of one of those pixels. The big picture that I see gathering speed is that this district is being set-up for a transformation. I would say set up for a fall but mostly a picture seems to be forming so that the district can look like it's in very bad condition but, simultaneously, that it's nobody in senior leadership's fault. (Yes, that's quite the feat but I think that's how it's going to get played). I believe our district is being set-up to be taken over, at some point, by the Mayor and others in power in the city. I think - like Bill Gates - they are frustrated (and, in some cases, rightly so) with the pace of student academic gains in ...