Paul Vallas, vassal and executioner of public schools: Dateline New Orleans, Haiti and Philadelphia
Education, World NewsMay 5, 2012
Readers might remember the distasteful case of gun-for-hire, former Superintendent of the Philadelphia School District and New Orleans School District, Paul Vallas and his erstwhile dismantling of New Orleans’ school district after Hurricane Katrina. Vallas was on hand to help fire the entire New Orleans unionized teacher’s labor force and impose conservative, Paul T. Hill’s dreadful disaster capitalist policies on the fledgling school district (http://dailycensored.com/2009/12/15/teachers-unions-and-charter-schools-taking-race-to-the-top-money-and-starving-public-schools-their-teachers-and-students/). As I wrote back in 2009, this was all an effort to smash and grab districts all over the country and force them to submit to privatization through charter