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[quote=Anonymous]Here is Don Graham opining in today's Post that Henderson is the best thing that ever happened to DC education

http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kaya-henderson-deserves-support-from-dcs-elected-leaders/2014/02/24/f5f5f472-9d8e-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html

This sounds like the Ed reform/ industrial educational complex are desperate to keep themselves in power by keeping their people in school leadership

Sounds like Don Graham stares at test data, squints, ignores alternative explanations and declares success while Catania visits over 100 if the actual schools, talks to educators, students and parents and sees the reality behind the numbers. Including the fact that the curriculum narrowed to nothing but English and math to achieve an uptick in scores. That's not really education, sorry. And no mention of demographic changes here. Has he notices that the acheivement gap has grown hugely in the last few years?

He talks about the excellent schools leadership in other states nearby DC and then seems to think that DC had better keep what it's got because we can't hope to attract any better.

This piece argues that we need to stay the course that we have been following without acknowledging that Henderson/gray/DME Smith are in fact ready to enact HUGE changes in the way DCPS interacts with charter schools (  by seeking chartering authority for DCPS, by seeking proximity preference for charter school lotteries and by feeding DCPS schools into charter middle schools) and in the way students are assigned to schools around the city ( through boundary changes, feeder changes and possibly weighted lotteries to ensure socio economic integration where possible ).

We need to be judging Henderson and her handlers not just on their past performance but also what they have in store for the future.  Do we want what they are selling?

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