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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some please explain this to me.  How can the county 2 miles up the road and the other 5 miles down the road both which have tons more students get it right and DC can't? What's wrong? No need to reinvent the wheel. Just do what they do in MoCo. It's so damn frustrating. [/quote]

Let's just say that in DC we have our own way of doing things.   And the most important thing is that folks who work in local government "understand DC."  There were a couple of mayors (Williams and [b]Fenty[/b]) who hired people who wanted to do what they did in places like San Francisco, New York and Portland, but that's not the DC way.  Now we have a city government again that understands DC![/quote]

That's not entirely true.  The part of Williams is correct, but Fenty had some corruption issues, and arrogance issues, and was naive enough to think these would not come back to bite him.  School reform was great, but the heavy-handed approach was not.  Furthermore, he angered the charter constituency by trying to strangle it.  Charter students are now more than 1/3 of public school students in DC and rapidly approaching 40%.  That was just stupid.[/quote]

Really? The commission came back and said that Fenty did nothing wrong. Fenty unlike Gray and his ilk saw into the vision for this city. The problem with that vision (if you are a freerider and rent seeker) is that it holds people accountable and does away with the old way of thinking. Old style politicians and their constituents don't like that. The teachers union was the happiest group when Fenty lost that election.[/quote]

Really?  Which commission on which charge?  After all, there were several.  There are a lot of people who are neither "freeriders" nor members of the teachers union who were very unhappy about the way he used city contracts to enrich his frat brothers.[/quote]

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