Challenges Ahead: Brizard’s departure to Chicago
Since joining Failing Schools as a writer, I’ve written a fair amount about the policies, leadership, and resistance to former Rochester City School District Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard. I attempted to have us collectively examine Brizard’s agenda, better known as the Broad Agenda, by understanding what common consequences Eli Broad-trained Superintendents bring to school districts throughout the nation. This process has been filled with numerousstruggles, (and questions from the very start) as Brizard has attempted to advance top-down policies filled with dubious unethical mismanagement that many in Rochester have viewed as hostile to some of the basic tenets of public education.
Several times in the last few weeks, parents, schools, and community came together before the
