Blackout

This idea of pairing possible NYC schools chancellor Cathie Black with someone steeped in education as a condition of granting her a waiver to serve strikes me as a phenomenally bad idea.   Not a bad idea because she shouldn’t surround herself with such people, she obviously should.  Rather, if you are the state commissioner of education and you don’t think she has the sense to do exactly that then why would you even consider giving her a waiver to run a $21 billion school system with more than a million kids in it? Let’s hope this is just a political fig leaf not a management philosophy.

3 Replies to “Blackout”

  1. Strauss writes that Murdoch is…

    “investing in Teach for America and some charter schools.”

    Isn’t that something a WaPo editor would flag/correct? The word is “donating.”

    You’d think that would be a critical distinction that readers would have wanted.

  2. Sorry,
    correction.
    The phrase correction should be “donating to.”
    The rest stands.
    You’d think that would be a critical distinction that readers would have wanted.
    Based on the comments, NO.

  3. The doublethink is deafening around Bloomberg’s choice. If there were something remotely sophisticated in the process, it would be clear to his audience.

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