Search Delayed for New Memphis Superintendent Until Dirty Work Wrapped Up – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

Search Delayed for New Memphis Superintendent Until Dirty Work Wrapped Up – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:

Search Delayed for New Memphis Superintendent Until Dirty Work Wrapped Up

by Jim Horn

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All the pieces were in place for the installation of Eli Broad’s choice for the new Shelby County/Memphis superintendent when suddenly someone in the office of the search firm, PROACT, called a time out.  Over the next few months, there is plenty of dirty work to be done, and no one at PROACT wants their new Broadie tainted by the anti-public and anti-teacher crackdown that is part of the privatization scheme now underway.    

There’s the planned closing of so many Memphis public schools (11 now scheduled), the dumping of experienced teachers, the hiring of TFA corporate colonizers and the  local missionary equivalents from the “Christ-centered” Memphis Teacher Residency, the outsourcing of services from custodial to transportation,  and turnover of closed public schools to the corporate charters so that they will have space to operate their behavioral-neutering operations without any public officials snooping around.  And then there is that $58 million budget hole created by local loss of so much state funding that will go directly to 

Education Week publishes an “apology” for Duncan at #AERA13

MAY 6, 2013 BY CHALK FACE, PHD LEAVE A COMMENT

The horror. Our Secretary of Education, who is the CEO of disaster as far as many of us are concerned, got a few boos during a speech at AERA. Pearl clutching ensued.

I’m sure folks are very, very sorry. 

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