Capital Prep is a success?
Perry, Capital Prep’s Principal claims that 100% of his graduates go to a four year college. The truth is far from that. Even the notion that 100% of his students are “accepted” to a four year college is a stretch. Any Perry’s completely ducks that the fact that at least one in five of his […]The post Capital Prep is a success? appeared first on Wait What?.
Vallas does a “Double Layout Full In, Full Out” move on appointed school boards
In a gymnastic move worthy of an Olympic Gold Medal, Bridgeport’s faux superintendent of schools Paul Vallas has done what some might have thought impossible. Vallas made a 180 degree change in his position on mayoral appointed school boards. Yesterday, in a Chicago Tribune article entitled, “Vallas says he’s OK playing ‘second banana’ to Quinn,” […]The post Vallas does a “Double Layout Full In, F
Joe Biden’s Chief of staff becomes President of the education reform industry’s Broad Foundation
As if it wasn’t clear enough where President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden stand on when it comes to the corporate education reform industry, moments ago, it was announced that “Bruce Reed, assistant to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was named president of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation” According to […]The post Joe Biden’s Chief of staff becomes P
If there is a Twitter Chutzpa Award – Steve Perry will win it easily!
For months and months, Capital Prep’s principal Steve Perry has been using his twitter account to bully and attack anyone who opposes his corporate education reforms philosophy. His Modus operandi has been nothing short of virtually continuous, obsessive, unrelenting tweets, many of which occurred during work hours. Here at Wait, What? we’ve been using the […]The post If there is a Twitter Chutzp
“If you don’t want to go to college, don’t go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.” – Steve Perry
Yesterday, Steve Perry’s agent sent out a “publicity advertisement” that contained Perry’s regular quote about the educational philosophy behind Perry’s Capital Prep Magnet School. Perry says, yet again, “If you don’t want to go to college, don’t go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.” Although he apparently means that 100% of Capital Prep’s seniors are […]The post “If you don’t want to go to coll
11-12-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Chicago’s leading blog: “Bridgeport Tenure Shows Vallas May Be Failing Upward in Illinois”In a blunt assessment of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s decision to select Paul Vallas as his running mate, Chicago’s leading political blog, “The Ward Room,” experts in Illinois are recognizing that Vallas is hardly the superstar he makes himself out to be. The Ward Room writes, “To hear education