Thompson: Increasing School Reformer's Survival Rates
Mike Petrilli was referring to the firing of educators when he told the Wall Street Journal that "school reform is not political suicide," but it will take "a lot of political capital to make it happen." That should lead to the conclusion that collaboration, with a coalition of reformers and not just data-driven "reformers," is required to share in the sacrifice. Teachers’ unions are willing to expend political capital to help fire