Turns out former CMS Superintendent Peter Gorman — no friend of sister blog Meck Deck back in the day—- is division VP of Amplify, Rupert Murdoch’s educational division. Some school board members are now raising questions about GCS Superintendent Mo Green’s relationship with Gorman, considering the fact that Amplify won the middle school tablet contract as part of GCS’ $30 million technology initiative and Gorman is Green’s former boss.
Looks like the N&R’s Morgan Glover is on top of this story, which (in my mind) include some stunning admissions from chief of staff (and former Gorman employee) Nora Carr —“Education is a small world”— and school board member Linda Wellborn —“his new age of electronic teaching is going to be huge money.”
No kidding. Yet this is the status quo that many want to preserve. Interesting the N&R characterizes the state’s proposed school voucher program as a “costly bill with no guarantees of success.” Meanwhile GCS is putting its technology initiative on the line as a means to improve middle school test scores. It may or may not work, but all the same somebody’s calculating its guarantee of success, at considerable cost to taxpayers.
