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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some pps seem to think Tommy Wells has a lot of power and he is declining to use it. Folks, the Chancellor is appointed by the Mayor.  You need to take this to Gray.  Wells has little say so over the school system.[/quote]
Agree to some degree that ultimately the Mayor and Chancellor are in mostly control of DC public education.

But Wells has a pulpit from which to advocate and coalesce a movement that will affect change.  The thing is he has a few constituencies that strongly diverge, and he's taking a muddy middle path as he plots a path to be mayor.

He needs to appeal to old school African American interests (in Ward Six many voted for Kelvin Robinson).

Meanwhile he needs to keep his Ward Six base in tact - and that group does not agree on school reform.  The old school traditional Ward Six liberals are anti-charter, and amongst them there is not agreement on how to proceed.  Other Ward Six progressives just want something that works -- be it charter, DCPS, whatever -- and so they are generally pro-charter.

Wells does not have a silver bullet at his disposal.  What he has is disparate groups stuck in a dysfunctional system who lack consensus.  Plus, urban school reform in teh US has few success stories to model how DC can fix things.[/quote]

Wells is in la-la-land if he thinks he has a shot at mayor.  Who exactly is his constituency?  Exactly what has he accomplished to date for Ward 6 residents, that is aside from advocating for bike lanes, a trolley line to nowhere along H Street and Ballpark District Parking restrictions?  Where was his leadership on Hine post bait-and-switch?   Let's face it, Wells got hoodwinked on Reservation 13 and was forced to take parts of Ward 1 that Jack Evans had no interest in serving.  Wells has alienated most of the Council, as evidenced by the fact that no one came to his defense after Kwame unceremoniously booted him from the Transp. Committee post for questioning leases of multiple SUVs.  From what I can discern, he has no "big picture" vision for Ward 6, much less the students who reside there.  [/quote]

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