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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS is doing fine. They need a real board rather than hand-picked people who Michael and Olga liked and who can play with Craig B. [/quote]

sorry but who is Craig B?  
I thought the line of authority went to Sean Aiken and then Caroline McGarvey (and can never go to Michael Block because he is on the Board of the for profit company), while his wife Olga stayed on the non profit side.  Pretty cosy, but still.[/quote]

Craig Barrett, former Intel CEO, picked up BASIS (and privatization of public schools in general) as a pet project a while back. But make no mistake, BASIS is and always has been Olga Block. Michael (economics professor) is a nice guy but never wore the pants in that relationship and certainly not when it comes to BASIS. Carolyn is Olga's right hand man - no background in education but a powerful (although quite aggressive) personality and fiercely loyal. Sean, like all the other HOS's, was picked out of the teaching ranks (to detriment of teaching ranks) as a nice guy, capable, ambitious but willing to tow the party line and desirous of more than the minimum wage teacher salary. He has absolutely no power to innovate, only to implement the system. If you have evidence to the contrary, I'd be interested in hearing it. As far as I can see, at BASIS, from admin to teachers to parents, you either believe in Olga's system, or you don't. [/quote]

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