Paul Pastorek Is Positioned to Charterize Puerto Rico. Who Is This Guy, Anyway?
The Puerto Rican Department of Education has decided to contract with former Louisiana state ed superintendent, Paul Pastorek, at $250 an hour ($155,000 max) for assistance that includes soliciting the US Department of Education for hurricane recovery aid.
The dog whistle in that news is a charterized Puerto Rico.
In this post, I offer a slice of Pastorek history and involvements. Even though I cut it short, this is a long post.
Get some coffee and sit in your comfy chair.
Here goes:
Like many ed reformers, Pastorek has no teaching background. A lawyer by trade, Pastorek was appointed to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) in 1996 by then-governor, Mike Foster, who was impressed by (wait for it) Pastorek’s *passion* about education. From an old Pastorek bio:
Mr. Pastorek served on the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE)
from 1996-2004, including the last three years as president. …
At first, he was a passionate volunteer in a New Orleans public junior high school.
Appalled at some of the things he saw in that inner-city school, he began to read
literature and work with the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce to improve the
education of children in New Orleans. His work came to the attention of Governor
Mike Foster, who appointed him to serve on the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Pastorek’s time as a governor’s appointee to BESE ended with Foster’s 2004 Continue reading: Paul Pastorek Is Positioned to Charterize Puerto Rico. Who Is This Guy, Anyway? | deutsch29
