Commentary: Ackerman's last days
by Helen Gym on Aug 12 2011 Posted in Blogger commentary
The final act of Arlene Ackerman’s tenure should come with little surprise but plenty of outrage at the local and state powers who have let it drag out in such bitter, toxic fashion.
The last two School Reform Commission meetings and the media attention around them have been, frankly, a citywide embarrassment and alarming to parents, school staff and community organizations working frantically to get ready for the start of school. We’ve got more than a thousand vacancies districtwide – a terrifying number considering that it’s less than three weeks before teachers report for their first day.
Yet paralysis has gripped the District with the political silence around Ackerman’s tenure.
Few doubt that there’s backroom negotiation to push her out while her lawyers try