Innovation Schools Nothing New
Emma Brown in The Washington Post offers an important window into school reform occurring (ad infinitum) in Washington DC:
D.C. Council member David A. Catania plans to announce wide-ranging legislation Tuesday that could substantially reshape the city’s public education system, as he seeks to increase funding to educate poor children, give more power to principals, change the city’s school lottery system and end social promotion of children who are performing below grade level.I suppose Brown, The Washington Post, and Catania are unaware that DC schools were reformed to perfection when Michelle Rhee ruled the land. But nonetheless, Catania appears to have all the appropriate slogans in place:
“So long as our school system fails, and it disproportionately fails poor people and people of color, it permits a culture of division,” said Catania, who in January became chair of the council’s newly reconstituted education committee. “If we don’t tackle this issue of the achievement gap, if we