Peter Greene made a discovery. He unraveled a secret that puzzled those who watch the career trajectories of Broad superintendents. Why did Briadie Superintendent John Covington leave the Kansas City school district that he promised to “save” before it was saved? He abruptly left, surprising many in Kansas City who thought he had made a commitment to stay.
Was it the higher salary for the leader of Michigan’s new Educational Achievement Authority? No.
Peter found the answer: Covington left Kansas City for the EAA because Eli Broad told him to.
When Eli calls, his disciples listen.
The EAA was supposed to be the proof point for Broad’s educational theories. No school board. Total control. It failed. Covington bailed out, amidst complaints about his expense account.
After more than a dozen years of “training” urban superintendents in his unaccredited program, Eli has no successes. Yet he is pushing to take control of half the children in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Maybe he will put John Deasy in charge. No, wait, he tried that already.
Caveat emptor.
Let educators educate, not billionaires who think they know everything just because they are rich.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Broad calling him to move to Michigan reminds me of the Emperor commanding Darth Vader. The fight against these shady, powerful men in their efforts to privatize and control public education feels like the Rebel Alliance vs The Empire. The innate and timeless battle of Good vs. Evil is being played out in the battle for our schools, our democracy, our freedom.
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Perfectly described!
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Use the Opt-out, Luke!
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From what I’ve seen of one recently hired Broadie superintendent, it all comes down toan unquestioned loyalty to the Peter Principal: you will get promoted, you will get more power, and you will get more money so long as you never, ever say no. ciedieaech.wordress.com THE PETER PRINCIPAL
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This is a sinister Broad conspiracy, part of a broader, sinisterer conspiracy.
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Broad has no interest in education. Broad has an interest in manipulating real estate values. A major factor in residential real estate values is the perceived or reputed quality of schools in an area. The catch is that perceived or reputed quality is far easier to manipulate than actual quality. And that is the name of his game.
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Jon…add to this that LA is one of the most expensive land value cities in the US…and that housing markets have again risen unrealistically. There is an alarming dirth of rental housing, and it is generally way over priced for mere worker bees like teachers. The LA Times today has a lead article on this major societal problem.
Therefore, a greed merchant like Eli Broad benefits either way, with rising prices, or, if the giant school district he has manipulated for decades, LAUSD, should go bankrupt, enabling him and his team of vultures to buy up all public schools and real estate for pennies on the dollar. Naomi got it right in her book, Shock Doctrine.
It certainly appears to be planned ‘creative destruction’ on a grand scale…see how this came about in Detroit, Eli’s home town before he took over LA in the late 1960s.
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He wants the land. He wants the money. He wants the power. He wants private ownership. He wants control. Of what? Of what Oliver Stone’s cocaine mad gangster Tony Montana wanted in Scarface: “The world, chico. And everything in it.”
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Could we have a comprehensive list of all unaccredited Broadie superintendents and the districts they are demolishing?
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Sharon Higgins kept a list of Broadies on her blog “The Broad Report.” But as the Broadies began to fail and get fired, the Broad Academy stopped posting their names.
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However, all Broad Academy graduates are posted on Eli’s website.
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They have featured profiles on their website: http://www.broadcenter.org/who-we-are/profiles/category/featured?/network/profiles/
“Who is Eli Broad and Why is he trying to destroy public education?”
http://www.defendpubliceducation.net/who-is-eli-broad/
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Ken,
Th Broad Academy used to list all its graduates. All. No more. Where is Mike Miles? John Covington? General Tata? Where have all the flowers gone? Instead the website shows grads who are no longer in their big roles : Deasy; Gist; Barbican.
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The President of Bank Street College of Education in New York, Shael Polakow-Suransky, is a 2008 graduate of Broad Superintendents Academy and, he is a Fellow of the Pahara-Aspen Education Program, which was “founded by Kim Smith”. Smith’s Pahara…bio lists her as a “founding team member of Teach for America, co-founder of Bellwether Education Partners and New Schools Venture Fund”. Bank Street received almost $2 million from Gates, in 2015. The College awarded the current President of AACTE, a Medal of Honor which she lists in her AACTE bio, unlike her Corinthian College Board position.
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An article at Ann Arbor Musings, May 6, 2013 reports, “10% of states have selected Broad grads. to lead their state departments of ed.”
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Linda, I wonder how any of the 5 Broadies are still leading state education departments?
John White. Who else?
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Is Dr William Hite in Philly a Broadie? He is giving our schools away and the teachers haven’t had a contract or raise in years. His contract was just renewed….
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Yes, let educators educate in addition to taxing 90% of the total net wealth of every billionaire with no loopholes allowed. That money can be added to the funding of public schools.
Eli Broad’s net worth is $7.1 Billion. After he paid his mandatory tax to support the public schools, he’d still have $710 million dollars. I wonder if that would be enough to support him and his family—to keep a roof over his head and food on the table.
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Broadie’s Toadies…
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Diane asks where Mike Miles has gone. Dallas answers, “We don’t know and we don’t care.”
He came from Colorado and brought a few people with him. He put one in charge of a decently performing middle school. Within her first year or so, the school was renamed a Preparatory Academy. Many teachers said it was a change in name only or “lipstick on a pig” because very little else changed–children zoned to the school did not have to apply for admission regardless of grades or scores or behavior. DISDblog had a post about it with the same or similar title.
2.5 years later, once Miles disappeared, the teachers at the school went public with the school’s now-tanking test scores, the very high teacher turnover rate and one of the lowest teacher survey scores in the district.
The principal left in December, but the school, once a top middle school, is teetering on the brink of state intervention and college-educated parents from one feeder school have almost all pulled their children out. The stench of Miles and Broad remains.
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Reblogged this on horseofmanycolors and commented:
You are OUTED Superintendent Runcie of Broward Florida: The Broad Superintendent’s Master’s Voice https://dianeravitch.net/2016/04/02/peter-greene-the-broad-superintendent-and-his-masters-voice/ via @dianeravitch
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