Where Are The Teachers?
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is navigating the process of selecting a new superintendent.
According to recent reports by the Advocate, a "strategic subcommittee" has been formed which conspicuously includes: Michael Tipton, a TFA executive director; Chris Meyer, former TFAer and DOE special adviser to former state Superintendent Paul Pastorek; and Kimberly Williams, legal director of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (the exec. director of LAPC is Caroline Shirley Roemer, sister of BESE member Charles Roemer). Not only is there conflict of interests here, but community input and control of their public schools is, once again, being subverted by these special interests with a very focused agenda to privatize our public schools.
http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/674362-63/letter-school-panels-special-interests.html#comments
I noted that one of the comments following the article made by a writer identified as TRAVELER, suggested that
According to recent reports by the Advocate, a "strategic subcommittee" has been formed which conspicuously includes: Michael Tipton, a TFA executive director; Chris Meyer, former TFAer and DOE special adviser to former state Superintendent Paul Pastorek; and Kimberly Williams, legal director of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (the exec. director of LAPC is Caroline Shirley Roemer, sister of BESE member Charles Roemer). Not only is there conflict of interests here, but community input and control of their public schools is, once again, being subverted by these special interests with a very focused agenda to privatize our public schools.
http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/674362-63/letter-school-panels-special-interests.html#comments
I noted that one of the comments following the article made by a writer identified as TRAVELER, suggested that