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Mixed Feelings about CMS’s Broad Prize

by pagrundy

PAA co-founder Pamela Grundy has a son in fifth grade in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

So we finally won the Broad Prize. After two stints as a finalist, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools took home this year’s prize, which the Charlotte Observer termed “the nation’s top award for urban education.” CMS leaders celebrated. Our mayor called the prize “a huge shot in the arm.”

I have mixed feelings.

I don’t care for Eli Broad or the movement he is part of. His support for privatizing public education, his disdain for elected school boards and his push for disruptive policies