Are you surprised to learn that Muriel Bowser, Mayor of the District of Columbia, has chosen a superintendent who is a graduate of the unaccredited Broad Superintendents Academy, known for its multiple failed superintendrncies and its devotion to closing public schools and turning them over to private management?
Mayor Bowser is intent on remaining loyal to the disastrous legacy of Michelle Rhee, to high teacher-turnover, and to disruption.
The District of Columbia, which has been wholly controlled by Reforners since 2007, continues to be one of the lowest-scoring districts in the nation on NAEP. It holds the dubious distinction of having the largest achievement gaps of any city or state in the nation, about double the national average. Yet Reformers still point to it as a “success” story, despite the gaps, despite the cheating scandal, despite the graduation rate scandal, despite the absence of any indecently verified data. Oh, and yes, the Mayor wants to take control of the data to be sure it reflects well on “Reform” and her.
Valerie Jablow has the story here.
Mayor Bowser must have a close relationship with Secretary DeVos.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
There once was a witch named Rhee,
Who attacked public schools with glee.
All should feel free
From her likes to flee.
Better a flea than she.
🙂 and since she was a deadly parasite feeding off of the district she so horribly abused, she was perhaps the flea itslef: Best To Flee that FLEA.
Oh, but the Reformers are correct in that it IS a success story. Anyone with the means living in DC ($$$) pays for their child to attend a wealthy private school and they don’t complain about it at all. The public and charter schools are only for “those” children. I really think DC would love to just push out everyone under a certain income level and then wall themselves off from the rest of the country. They would love for “those” people to move into neighboring PG County, MD…which just happens to be the state’s largest Charter-ville (along with Balto. City). Just think of the beautiful city that DC could be if it weren’t for all “those” people?
” I really think DC would love to just push out everyone under a certain income level and then wall themselves off from the rest of the country.”
I think that pretty much describes every major U.S. city. I don’t know how anyone affords to live in the city limits of Chicago anymore, and Chicago is one of the cheaper major cities. We are by no means poor but we couldn’t afford it without scrunching ourselves into a microscopic apartment (and maybe not even then). I can’t imagine what the people who do live in the city are making or how people who earn less than us are getting by.
The amount of wealth in DC, surrounding counties in MD and Northern VA is astounding. We were driving to my son’s hockey game being played at the Chevy Chase Country Club and my son remarked that he could smell the money!! In these areas, people don’t live in houses….they live in manors or tudors or estates. It’s rather sickening.
@LisaM: I live in Fairfax county VA. The metro DC area, has a large concentration of high income people. (my wife sells real estate). Property values here are high, and with the 25,000 new people moving into Arlington (Amazon), values will only go higher.
People in this area live in houses. I live in a house.
“Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area has a population of 6.13M people with a median age of 36.9 and a median household income of $95,843. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area grew from 6.1M to 6.13M, a 0.58% increase and its median household income grew from $93,294 to $95,843, a 2.73% increase.” …
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/washington-arlington-alexandria-dc-va-md-wv-metro-area/
To discover who the people are that “they (the ‘upper-crust’ that earns more than the average and owns their own homes) want to drive out and wall themselves off from, scroll down and discover the people in this area that live in poverty.
“The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area is Black or African American, followed by White and Hispanic or Latino.
“The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family’s total income is less than the family’s threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.”
Trump’s election opened the door wide and nailed it to stay open for endless lies, misinformation, propaganda, and ushered in an era where greed is ruled by the few.
Welcome to the autocratic theo-kleptocracy and the death of the US Constitutional Republic and its democratic institutions.
The kleptocracy that Trump and his deplorable financial supporters represent will not go away without a total and complete defeat that leaves them crushed in utter poverty without two pennies to rub together.
I love reading your comments, Lloyd. Thank you.
Yes, Lloyd. Thanks.
Economic INEQUALITY …
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2018/12/10/the-worlds-most-depressing-tweet-n2537241?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=aede529acc82619a1278658e15d66f8c
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez (I love the way that sounds) recently tweeted that newly elected House reps attend an orientation hosted by Goldman Sachs. Is it any wonder our politicians do the bidding of Wall Street instead of the voters?
See the post today about that orientation session featuring Goldman Sachs at Harvard
Yikes!