Friday, October 12, 2012

Ed Notes Online: Brizard Out: Substance Has the Scoop a Month Ago

Ed Notes Online: Brizard Out: Substance Has the Scoop a Month Ago:


Brizard Out: Substance Has the Scoop a Month Ago

Another Broad Superintendent
John Lawhead is kind enough to remind us:

Substance reported that Barbara Byrd Bennett would replace JC Brizard over a month ago in George Schmidt's amusing 'race to the elevator' piece.

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3573

Eat your heart out Russo, who complained at the time that George had an advantage because he was in the building and able to get the Byrd Bennett photo. Russo of course reports on Chicago from Brooklyn - but claims 

Join MORE in its Quest

I hope you read the post by NYCEducator on Unity Caucus along with the comments. Read the Unity C defender and the responses (including mine). And add yours.Really, right now is there an alternative to MORE which is in the early stages of building positive alternative leadership (PAL) to Unity? Unless you support Unity policies (contrast to Chicago) how can you stay away?

I've had little internet access except through my phone. I'm in the Lisbon airport waiting for a flight to Madrid where we catch the plane home. If we make the tight connection after a 2-week trip to Portugal I will be home in time to attend the Oct MORE meeting tomorroe where I hope to see a rousing endorsement of the top 5 candidates on the MORE slate running against Unity and who knows whatever else pops up in the election?
I'm excited at the progress MORE, which didn't have a name until this past May, has been making with very few


Sleight of Hand: Joel Klein’s Misleading Autobiography that Corrupts our Education Policy

“Sleight of Hand” describes Joel Klein’s father, a federal postal employee who passed a civil service exam and later retired with a secure federal pension; and his mother, a bookkeeper. The Klein family income was about at the national median income, perhaps much higher. The public housing project in which young Joel lived was almost all white and attractively landscaped.---Richard Rothstein

When I and Joel had our hug when he announced he was leaving the DOE it was based on a blog post I wrote that we both came from similar backgrounds and had some similar history -- before he went bad. Basically, as