Gray's education plan calls for community input, pledges transparency
By Bill Turque
Washington Post Staff WriterThursday, July 1, 2010; 1:14 PM
Calling the Fenty administration's approach to education reform "shortsighted, narrow and clandestine," D.C. Council Chairman and mayoral candidate Vincent C. Gray promises more transparency, funding equity for public charter schools, tax credits for early-childhood programs and new attention to the city's neighborhood high schools in a policy blueprint to be unveiled Thursday afternoon.
The fifteen-page document, which does not offer cost estimates for the proposals, reflects broad areas of agreement with the reform program led by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. It voices support for continued mayoral control of the public school system and the ideas embedded in the