My Response to “The risks of forcing out Jean-Claude Brizard”
This last Tuesday I read an article by Mary Anna Towler in Rochester’s City Newspaper about what the Rochester City School District stands to “lose” if our Broad-trained Superintendent, Jean-Claude Brizard, is forced out. Given that Brizard’s name has been floating around Newark, NJ, Boston, and Chicago as a future possible leader, this article was timed interestingly. For those of us observing this revolving door of educational leaders who jump from city to city (sounds a lot like the ‘dance of the lemons’ scenario used by pro-deform leaders when inaccurately describing how they can never fire experienced teachers, left only to wait impatiently or force the more expensive ‘bad’ teachers to transfer between schools) it will be interesting to observe and learn from this situation.
Towler wrote in the article,
