Would Catania or Bowser keep Kaya Henderson?

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of agenda do you think it is - you make it sound nefarious?

I don't think it is a nefarious agenda, but perhaps a misguided one having to do with intermingling the charter and traditional schools systems, neighborhood preferences for charter schools, controlled choice rather than one by-right neighborhood school. For sure she is a tireless advocate for improving education for the most disadvantaged kids. This is laudable but I fear that the ideological may outweigh the practical and that middle class families ( black and white ) who have only started to trust the school system and believe that they can live and thrive in the district will be chased off with policies that strip them of choice and control over their kids' education. If people sense that their kids are being used as pawns in a scenario to improve education the most disadvantaged INSTEAD of fixing what is broken in the school leadership and dysfunctional system, they will evaporate from the city schools in a heartbeat. And that's when everyone is worse off. It's a fine balance and I hope she can walk it.

Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser just said on Kojo that Kaya is likely to stay until 2017 unless something happens.

Something like . . . Bowser deciding to fire her.

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No. The question was, "Henderson has attracted interest from school districts around the country that would pay her much better than here. Is Henderson willing to stay on as Chancellor if you became Mayor?"

Bowser answered that Henderson herself has said she wants to stay at least through 2017 so she can see through initiatives for which she set 2017 as the goal.

Bowser di dont commit to keeping Henderson, saying that was a decision she would make later on.