An Awkward Moment for School Reformers
by Frederick M. Hess • Oct 20, 2010 at 10:50 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
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Yesterday, Gwinnett County, Georgia, claimed the Broad Prize in a classy awards ceremony at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. The event featured New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NBC anchor Brian Williams talking about the vital role of school reform, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan naming the winner.
Unmentioned by all, and for good reason, was that Gwinnett is in the middle of a very unreformish attempt to prohibit the Georgia Charter Schools Commission (GCSC) from approving or funding charter schools. Awk-ward....
Gwinnett has been one of several districts suing the state since 2007 over the GCSC's "imposition" of charter schools. This is especially awkward in the case of charters like Ivy Preparatory Academy, an all-girls charter