Re: Fwd: George Miller

[aburke5054@aol.com]

 The "normal structure" in New Orleans was massive inefficiency, laxity, and corruption.? Clearly it was time for change, with or without Katrina.? If charters, TFA, NL4NS, and Paul Vallas bring improvements, that's great for parents and kids.? If they don't bring improvements, by all means NO should do something else.? But what NO should not do is go back to the pre-Katrina "normal structure."
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Art

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Bernstein <kber@earthlink.net>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 4:50 pm
Subject: Re: [arn-l] 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

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