OB Town Council Guest Speaker Peppered by Salty Audience
- Scott Himelstein speaks before OB Town Council and questioning audience.
Nearly every chair was filled last night at the OB Town Council monthly general meeting. Many of the some thirty folks in the audience had come to hear Scott Himelstein speak about his group’s “reform” plans for City schools.
Himelstein had invited himself to deliver another spiel about “San Diegans 4 Great Schools” and was the night’s guest speaker. The group is going around town in an effort to get their message out to community groups. OB was the second stop on Himelstein’s rounds. Last week he had been in Tierrasanta.
After describing his group as a “coalition of businesspeople, parents, teachers and philanthropists”, Himelstein gave his pitch: the schools are failing, they have troubling results, money per student is rising, and it was time to examine how to build in greater accountability in