People: Solomon To Head Boston Reform Group
News out today is that the Boston Plan for Excellence, the "critical friend" to the Boston Public Schools long headed by former Kennedy staffer Ellen Guiney, is soogoing to be run by Jesse Solomon, who's headed the Boston Teacher Residency program for the past several years. Details below. Congrats, condolences.
Dear friend,
It is with pleasure that I write to let you know of two important developments at the Boston Plan for Excellence: a change in leadership, and an important new direction in our work.
Public education in Boston is dramatically different from when I began as executive director at BPE in the fall of 1995, and, I would argue, demonstrably better, based on both test scores and our staff's daily observations in schools. More good schools -- both within and without the Boston Public
