Meck Deck takes note of the same story I heard on NPR this morning:
The KC school board voted 5-4 to close 26 schools, leaving it operating 33 schools — the same number it had in 1889, back when enrollment in the system was also under 18,000, the same as today.
Meanwhile, the Central Falls (Rhode Island) school board fires the entire faculty of an underperforming school. The housecleaning got a shoutout from President Obama, which really pissed off national teachers’ unions:
“I ripped the Obama sticker off of my truck,” said Zeph Capo, a midlevel official at the Houston Federation of Teachers who trains classroom teachers. “We worked hard for this man, we talked to our neighbors and our fellow teachers about why we should support him, and we’re having to dig the knife out of our back.”
Houston, mmmmmm…..oh yeah, where ‘that jerk’ Terry Grier is shaking things up.
At any rate, it’s very sad to see so many people get taken in by one man.
