Astounding NY Times Editorial Spells Doom For Ed Deform [View all]

>>Astounding NY Times Editorial Spells Doom for Ed Deform: Was Brent Staples Absent Today?
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...while charter schools can be a path to excellence, they can also cause problems. Shoehorning them into existing school buildings over local objections can alienate parents and reinforce among students a harmful sense of being separate and unequal.

Mr. Bloomberg’s schools chancellor, Dennis Walcott, called the criticism an “unconscionable” assault on the Education Department... after 12 years, this mayor’s ideas are due for a counterargument. The critiques the candidates are offering hardly shock the conscience, and their complaints about the Bloomberg administration can be heard from teachers and parents in any school in the city. ... NY Times editorial

After 12 years of outright support of Bloomberg ed policies and for ed deform in general, along with some of the worst coverage of local and national education issues (other than when Anna Phillips was reporting for a year), this editorial is a sign that the increasing messages of outrage emerging from every area of the city are reaching their mark. Staples has been the most adamant supporter of deform and a union basher to boot. I hope he brings an absence note.>>>

Norm Scott at Ed Notes. I was kind of shocked by this also. Pretty much an across the board admission that everything that paper's been advocating ( successfully) for over the last 12 years is a fiesta de failure. Or... as close to an admission that we're ever going to see.

So now what? Back to letting teachers teach and to letting people who understand how schools function actually RUN them? Probably too much to hope for.

Here's the rest: http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2013/05/astounding-ny-times-editorial-spells.html