Joel Klein served as Chancellor of the New York City public schools for eight years. He had no previous experience as an educator. But he came to the job with a determination to reinvent the system and wipe out whatever he found. He has often boasted of the dramatic gains that occurred under his leadership, at the same time that he claims that public education is in terrible shape due to teachers’ unions and tenure laws that protect incompetent teachers.
Here Jersey Jazzman begins a multi-part dissection of Klein’s record as leader in New York City.
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Thank you, Jersey Jazzman, for devoting the time and energy to calling out the deformer superstars. I still have trouble grasping why anyone would be so shortsighted as to want to deconstruct public education.
Thank you, Jersey Jazzman. I always knew that it was just a matter of time before people began exposing the fraud that forms the entire basis for the educational “reform” movement. The whole movement is based on “lies, damned lies and statistics.” It all started with the Texas Miracle and went on from there, even after that particular “miracle” was exposed.
For the first time in our history (so far as I know) entrepreneurs have a shot at siphoning off school tax money for personal gain and that’s why people want to deconstruct public education. It’s obviously not “for the children” because any public school teacher can tell you that the money is not going to the classrooms or to the children who so desperately need it.
I would like to nominate Jersey Jazzman for the Nobel Prize.
The man has no integrity and is for sale.
Let’s keep shining the lights on the cockroaches of ed rheeform: they’ll eventually scurry away.
The real problem we have is that we’re all preaching to the choir. Unless the mainstream media picks up the story, we’re just all repeating the same stories over and over to ourselves.
Mike,
Preaching to the choir is one way to build a movement. When people feel isolated and powerless, they get paralyzed. When they realize they are part of a large number of like-minded people, they feel empowered. It is happening.
Diane