Antwan Wilson to be announced as new Chancellor

[Anonymous]

Advanced degrees doesn't really mean anything unless your a physician of some sort.

[Anonymous]

He has a Master's OP, what more do you want?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This came across my timeline. Personally, I am underwhelmed. No advanced degrees yet he was offered $400K by OUSD ANOTHER struggling school district. WTH
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Sources-Oakland-Superintendent-Named-New-DC-School-Chancellor-402362595.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DCBrand

Where does it say he has no advanced degrees?

On his bio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has a Master's OP, what more do you want?

Link.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Advanced degrees doesn't really mean anything unless your a physician of some sort.

It does in the field of education.

[Anonymous]

I guess it does't matter since whoever they brought in would be a puppet anyhow. I guess this one will do his 2 years then move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This came across my timeline. Personally, I am underwhelmed. No advanced degrees yet he was offered $400K by OUSD ANOTHER struggling school district. WTH
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Sources-Oakland-Superintendent-Named-New-DC-School-Chancellor-402362595.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DCBrand

-Previous experience as a teacher, assistant principal, principal and assistant superintendent in Denver.
-Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District
-An advanced degree from Friends University in Kansas
-Friends (?) is a nondenominational Christian school in Wichita, Kansas.
-What type of advanced degree does he have? Is it an online degree?
-What input did others have in making this decision?
-He is trained in the Broad tradition, so will this administration become a privatizer's heaven?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This came across my timeline. Personally, I am underwhelmed. No advanced degrees yet he was offered $400K by OUSD ANOTHER struggling school district. WTH
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Sources-Oakland-Superintendent-Named-New-DC-School-Chancellor-402362595.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DCBrand

Where does it say he has no advanced degrees?

On his bio.

Does have advanced degree from Friends University. In what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys will complain about anyone and anything. Would you prefer Davis?

Maybe. This is just another Kaya. She might as well had stayed. Overpaid and under qualified. It's the DC way!

So true! DC's application for Federal funds should have been for Race to the Bottom funds.

[Anonymous]

The unfortunate reality, as we have experienced in DC through the last 3 chancellors, is that education administration is filled with con artists.

[Anonymous]

I just spent an hour reading local news reports on Wilson from Denver and Oakland. My strong concern is that the narrow focus of his career has been to boost charter enrollment to improve test scores for low SES kids. A friend in CO tells me that she moved to the Denver burbs partly because he and his team proved inept on MS reform there. I'd much rather have seen a Chancellor come in from a city doing a good job drawing high SES families to neighborhood schools, and retaining most of them through HS. DC has missed an opportunity to import mature talent from Chicago, Boston, Houston, Dallas, Miami, or NYC.

This man is clearly not the Chancellor to introduce the test-in programs DCPS desperately needs to fill by-right middle schools in gentrifying areas, expensive-to-maintain buildings that sit nearly 3/4 empty, supporting student populations that are more than 3/4 OOB. McFarland, Jefferson Academy, Eliot-Hine and other by-right middle schools can't possibly turn around under this Chancellor. They have great potential, with spacious grounds and decent facilities, unlike the 5th-12th grade charters most of their in-bounds families flock to after 4th grade. Yet so many of their classrooms sit empty that ES populations camp out in them during renovations (Watkins at Eliot-Hine this SY with nearly 500 kids, Maury heading there next year with 400 kids).

Antwan Wilson is obviously the wrong Chancellor to provide the leadership, and make the policy changes, to fill neighborhood middle schools across the city, and, by extension, neighborhood high schools. This is no small matter for DC.

[Anonymous]

As the larger political stage around us is playing out too, experience and higher education doesn't seem to count as much as personality and appeal. Lord help us all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just spent an hour reading local news reports on Wilson from Denver and Oakland. My strong concern is that the narrow focus of his career has been to boost charter enrollment to improve test scores for low SES kids. A friend in CO tells me that she moved to the Denver burbs partly because he and his team proved inept on MS reform there. I'd much rather have seen a Chancellor come in from a city doing a good job drawing high SES families to neighborhood schools, and retaining most of them through HS. DC has missed an opportunity to import mature talent from Chicago, Boston, Houston, Dallas, Miami, or NYC.

This man is clearly not the Chancellor to introduce the test-in programs DCPS desperately needs to fill by-right middle schools in gentrifying areas, expensive-to-maintain buildings that sit nearly 3/4 empty, supporting student populations that are more than 3/4 OOB. McFarland, Jefferson Academy, Eliot-Hine and other by-right middle schools can't possibly turn around under this Chancellor. They have great potential, with spacious grounds and decent facilities, unlike the 5th-12th grade charters most of their in-bounds families flock to after 4th grade. Yet so many of their classrooms sit empty that ES populations camp out in them during renovations (Watkins at Eliot-Hine this SY with nearly 500 kids, Maury heading there next year with 400 kids).

Antwan Wilson is obviously the wrong Chancellor to provide the leadership, and make the policy changes, to fill neighborhood middle schools across the city, and, by extension, neighborhood high schools. This is no small matter for DC.

You are probably right that the needs of high SES families will not be his priority.

But that's because high SES families' educational desires and needs aren't the priority of the Mayor, the Chancellor or the DC political and business community that influences our government officials. Their only educational priority is to close the achievement gap and bring underperforming students closer to grade level proficiency. Doing this is the city's only hope of breaking cyclical poverty, and it's going to take significant investments in families, social services and jobs, not just schools.

What you want would have a negligible effect on that problem and thus isn't going to happen. City leaders are just as happy to have you move to the suburbs and sell your house to young professionals without kids or with babies who will use far fewer city services and pay the same taxes.

As for this candidate - how much credit should he get for rising test scores having been in Oakland a year? I'd give the credit - if its warranted - to whomever was his immediate predecessor.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. That story anout creating high-paying positions for his friends is just depressing. Can't DC do something right?!

[Anonymous]

Central office staffers should be braced for a round of cuts.