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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing will change unless DC somehow elects a mayor who is more conservative than Bowser who is willing to challenge the status quo. [/quote]

I think that you may have found yourself in the wrong city if you think that DC will ever become conservative.  I certainly don't believe conservatism is required for a leader to create better schools.  Fenty did more than any other mayor to push forward our schools and make change and he was far from conservative.[/quote]

PP here. You've misread what I wrote. I said "more conservative than Bowser." Not "a conservative." Fenty is precisely the kind of person I was talking about. He was "more conservative than Bowser" (not to mention everyone on the city council). We need someone who will stand up to the status quo, and raise standards and introduce a measure of accountability. You don't get that when you vote for extremely liberal Democrats. That's like voting for extremely conservative Republicans and expecting them to raise taxes on the rich. It's simply not in the cards.  [/quote]
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I disagree that Fenty was more conservative than Bowser. [/b] He went to Oberlin.  Bowser is in the pockets of every developer she ever met.[/quote]

Ok, well, you're just totally wrong. It was Adrian Fenty who put Michelle Rhee in charge of schools. It sounds Michelle Rhee was before your time. The short version is that Michelle Rhee did more to improve schools in DC than anyone else in our lifetime and she did it by doing the exact opposite of what Bowser and the rest of our city council does today re: schools. Michelle Rhee was a parent's dream and a liberal politician's nightmare. [/quote]

The only candidate that’s declared so far is Lewis-George. Is she more or less conservative and what might that mean for schools?[/quote]

Lewis-George is about as left wing as they come. She will keep schools as is. She will adamantly oppose raising academic standards or flunking kids or creating admissions standards for some schools. People like her see all that as racist because it will disproportionately hurt black kids. [/quote]

Untrue. She would agree to end mayoral control of schools. In which case educators and parents would have their power back. A school board isn’t a dream but it would be better. Of course she could be lying about her beliefs and give us the same old crap.[/quote]

Why would a school board would be better? Power still would be functionally in the hands of a select few.[/quote]

Focused attention by people elected to work on that one thing instead of general politicians that may (or frequently may not) understand the issues.

It works well in other parts of the country. Why not here?[/quote]

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