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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Fwd: George Miller
Peter mentioned the New Orleans school situation. Unfortunately, Mary Landrieu has been a big supporter of choice, and what has happened in the Crescent City as that they have used Katrina as an excuse to gut the normal structure and replace it with massive charter efforts, bringing in a lot of people from places like Teach for America and New Leaders for New Schools, and also bringing in Paul Vallas (as if his track record in either Chicago or Philly was anything particularly noteworthy). Unfornunately, Walter Isaacson has a rave about all this in Time - as it happens he grew up in New Orleans, and he is also on the board I think is of TFA... Isaacsons' piece was in Sept 6 issue: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1659767,00.html and it is probably important to remember that he is VERY involved with Aspen Institute (gee, why do all of these places interconnect), as you can see by this link: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.2253415/k.5A1D/About_Walter_Isaacson.htm teacherken aka Ken Bernstein Kenneth J. Bernstein
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