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Rochesterian reflects on Brizard’s leadership style

Interesting post by Rachel Barnhart on her Rochesterian blog. She compares the district’s current interim superintendent with their former, unlamented Supt J C Brizard:
“This time last year, former Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard proposed cutting 900 jobs and gutting art, music and physical education. Tonight, Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas proposedadding 54 classroom teachers, primarily in the elective subjects decimated by his predecessor. Brizard’s budget, under the guise of “equitable funding,” raised class sizes, left some kids with only one period of gym a week and