Jay Gatsby, Education Reformer
Meet Jay Gatsby, education reformer and one busy guy. Would he even have time to pine after Daisy??? After all, he’d have to oversee and scale up his expanding network of charter schools: the Gatsby College Prep Academies for Excellence. And forget about wild parties in West Egg. Mr. Gatsby would have a full calendar of fundraising dinners with his contemporary equivalents—hedge funders-turned-reformers like Daniel Loeb and Paul Tudor Jones. But the real question is who would get Gatsby’s backing in the race to become the next mayor of Boston and at last—at last!—reform the city’s failed and failing public schools?Of course the Great Gatz never called Boston home—but no matter, dear reader. The vast majority of carpet baggers reformers who’ve descended on the Hub of mediocrity flush with cash and excellence don’t live here either. But who are these contemporary incarnations of Mr. Gatsby and how bold is their bold vision of transformation?
“There’s a lot of money on the sidelines trying to figure out what to do about the Boston schools — and this mayoral election is critical,” said Richard Burnes, a semi-retired venture capitalist and longtime activist who plans to spend. If “we get one of these pseudo reformers who’s really in the
