The New York Times reports today that the charter school principal in New York City who created a list of students who had to be removed from the school (the “got to go” list) has taken a leave of absence.
The school is part of the high-performing Success Academy charter chain, which has often been accused of excluding or removing students who might get low test scores.
The acting principal will be the school’s fourth principal since it opened in 2013.
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This is plain NUTS!
A majority — 9 out of the 16 students — on this guy’s “Got to Go” List did, actually … well … go. At least 4 of those 9 who were pushed out of Success Academy had and still have Special Ed. designation. Therefore, they’re all suing the numerous parties involved. That’s why Eva needs to stick Candido Brown deep into her version of the Witness Protection Program for the indefinite, foreseeable future.
From the NYTimes article above:
“In December, four parents whose children were on the list filed suit in federal court in Brooklyn against the school. Mr. Brown, the Success Academy network, and the city and state Education Departments were also named in the suit, which charges that the school and the city violated the rights of students with disabilities and that the state failed to stop those violations.”
This is kind of like what Washington, D.C. Chancellor (and Rhee successor) Kaya Henderson and/or other corporate reformers did with principal of Crosby Noyes High School, Wayne Ryan. That’s the school where the most egregious, obvious, and widespread cheating was discovered, according to NEWSWEEK. To reward that cheating, Ryan and all the other cheaters at that school got $10,000 bonuses from Rhee and then Henderson every year, according to NEWSWEEK. Journalists like John Merrow later reported that Ryan disappeared off the face of the Earth in a somewhat unprecedented manner… Not even private detectives could locate him. Anybody know where that slob is today?
Who says Success Academy schools have deficient leadership? Just this one school’s had 4 leaders in 3 years! They’re *dripping* with leadership! 🙂
“The acting principal will be the school’s fourth principal since it opened in 2013.”
Acting. ¿? Perhaps they need to get an actual educator-administrator, not someone playing the role.
But if it’s not acting…
Quality productive work environments are not usually characterized by such high turnover.
Any info on what numbers 1, 2 and 3 have said on the record about why they left would be appreciated.
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I can’t believe this: “The school is part of the high-performing Success Academy” . I can’t believe you used the term: ‘high-performing’. Arghhh!
suppose I say “high-test-score-producing Success Academy”?
I still do not understand what this principal did that was any different than what his mentors, the principals at the Harlem Success Academy schools he trained under, did.
Apparently, it is okay to suspend a 5 or 6 year old over and over again and it is okay to refuse to send a renewal form home with students who have just “got to go”. But if you actually e-mail your “got to go” list to someone else, that is not allowed? At least this principal was honest about what he was doing. I guess he didn’t realize that it’s fine to do it as long as you lie and pretend you are not doing it.
NYC public school parent: good points.
What is really terrifying is that this principal apparently honestly felt it was morally and pedagogically a “best practice.”
That’s the way I see it…
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He got twisted because he left a paper trail. So much for NYC’s infamous walk and talks.
The poor guy was probably just taking orders.
He may wind up telling us that under oath! Who knew what when….This could be fun. Send in the lawyers with the clowns
I guess he just “got to go?”
Good riddance. May Success Academy be sued into oblivion. Eva with it. Good riddance to it all.
He will never return to Success Academy…why would he? Why should he? Would you?
Imagine this happening in a Charter School !!!!
Sue their brains out…. Sue sue sue bring eva to the stand so the truth cam come out. Lets bring in her co leader as well to court the former news caster campbell brown and lets cross examine this terd to see what crap she has under her sleeve. One by one lets trot them all out like the thoroughbreds that they are. Sue baby sue…Send in the clowns frankie boy
“Success Got to Go List”
The author of the “got to go”
Has simply got to go
It’s not that we don’t like him, though
But that the public know
Brilliant!
I’ve been continuously surprised at the outrage at the “got to go list.”
Newsflash: Many regular public high schools have a “got to go list” only they call it “students in need of redirection” in one year at a school in which I worked there was a list with about 20 or so names…at least 12 were successfully “redirected” to other school programs do as to not affect the test scores.
One way to see proof of this is to look at school report cards…note that many grade 11 numbers are reduced by between 30% and 50% from the numbers listed when they were grade 10.
Surprised,
I think you miss the point. Yes, there are public schools that push out kids they don’t wasn’t. But they don’t boast that they are the greatest. Eva does.
“In December, four parents whose children were on the list filed suit in federal court in Brooklyn against the school.”
When the heck did this happen, and why hasn’t it been all over the Internet?