Sunday, August 26, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Escalating the Rhetoric so That ALL Educators are Suspect

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Escalating the Rhetoric so That ALL Educators are Suspect:


Escalating the Rhetoric so That ALL Educators are Suspect

Over at the Washington Policy Center, Liv Finne's latest "analysis" is about the Success Academies in NYC, a small charter chain that has big plans to expand throughout NYC.  They do have higher than average test scores but, like other charters, don't serve as many Special Ed students.  And, their operator, Eva Moskowitz, rakes in a big salary and parent voices are not high on her list of priorities.  
This analysis would be okay -it's one in a long string of ancedotal stories about good charters.  They exist  but not in numbers that would support the idea that charters can and do make a big difference in any district where they are located.

She then goes on to rail about principals in Washington State:

In Seattle, for example, the superintendent of the district bureaucracy selects and oversees the performance of