Sarah Darer Littman wonders why some officials are not held accountable.
She points to the example of State Commissioner Stefan Pryor and Bridgeport Superintendent Paul Vallas, both of whom used ingenious ploys to avoid competitive bidding on contracts.
Shouldn’t accountability be applied uniformly for all public officials?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Peons should not be questioning their masters.
This should be our goal. We need these people held to the law. If they break it and the law calls for jail time so be it. At LAUSD if the child abuse laws were followed many including the superintendent and General Counsel would be charged on multiple counts and spend some time in the “Pokey.” It is time for this to happen. Why is it that if you steal trillions nothing happens and when you steal a bike or pizza jail time?
An excellent post, Dr. Ravitch.
If true justice ever has its day, what equal punishment should the “reformers” get for all the educational time and public money that has been squandered on ridiculous and failed “reforms”? … Jail time? … Community service?
How will the public school students, teachers, and other personnel be compensated for all the time, resources, and, yes, even careers that have been marginalized, wasted, and destroyed by the “edu-reform” agenda?
Although there is truly no adequate recompense for the enormous destruction and anguish that profit-driven “reforms” have wrought, justice demands some retribution.
Honestly, the only way for reformers to be held accountable is by launching law suits against them, and charges like collusion, conspiracy to commit fraud, and negligence would have to play a big role.
Yet there may not be any laws that recognize these wrongful actions. Then, there is the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
The law probably to bring about such actions against reformers varies from state to state. And there’s also the consideration of joining the Federal Department of Education, the state departments of education, and even school districts as joint defendants.
Maybe a class action suit, a civil suit, who knows?
Do any teachers out there have a labor or education lawyer in their family?