Lisa Donlan Comments on Tweed Inability to Manage Schools: Is it Centralized Mayoral Control?
No checks, no balances, no levers of power except for the mayor, his chancellor and the principals. The next Mayor had better tread carefully- the public school system is land mined w/ a dozen years of structural changes contradictory and uneven bad policy, and even worse implementation. --- Parent activist Lisa Donlan
Leonie posted this link: UFT calls off evaluation talks until city addresses rollout issues http://shar.es/h5LFc with this comment:
DOE can do nothing right acc to Mulgrew; many would agree.You know I don't necessarily buy the "Tweed incompetence" argument, which the UFT often pushes. I think Tweedies are just not interested in making things work in many public schools other than to cover their ass in case something goes wrong.
They are much more focused on their political agenda of pushing privatization schemes. There is a form of intentional neglect, in essence to make many public schools in areas targeted by charters a less appetizing