What a difference a day makes!
Today’s New York Times online included a story on Michelle Rhee, the controversial year-long superintendent for the troubled D.C. school system. She’s one of the many Ivy Leaguers who used a few years of teaching in urban schools via Teach For America to springboard into the forefront of educational policy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘inertia’
Oh I Wish I Were in Washington D.C.!
LAUSD Mismanagement
Everything Will Be Forgotten
Does anyone remember this time last year when KCAL/KCBS was running an expose on millions of dollars being mispent by administrators using their school credit cards? Ring a bell in the dusty reaches of memory? Here’s the video version to jog your brain:
LAUSD Credit Card Scandal: October, 2007
I wonder what ever happened [...]
And Now for Something Less Fun
A Safe Classroom
Today’s LA Times featured a heartbreaking story about a 14 year-old, learning diabled boy named Jeremiah Lasater who shot himself in the boys’ bathroom of his Acton high school on Monday. He was 6′ 5, awkward, and nerdy, according to kids quoted in the article. He’d been bullied for quite some time, though [...]
