The Boston Globe reported:
The Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday granted Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green the authority to take control of Providence schools, an unprecedented intervention effort designed to turnaround the struggling district.
The details of Infante-Green’s plan for Providence remain scarce, as the commissioner said she plans to return to the council next month to outline a strategy that will include hiring a superintendent to report directly to her, rather than to the Providence School Board.
Infante-Green was a TFA teacher for two years. She has never been a principal or a superintendent. She worked as an administrator in the New York State Education Department. It will be interesting to see how she turns around the schools of Providence.
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Prediction: a few years down the road when this takeover is another failure in a long line of takeover failures, she will leave that job for one in another state that pays more (her reward for destroying another public school district) because of how (un)successful she was in turning Providence’s schools around without addressing the ravages of child poverty.
It is easier to blame teachers for a “culture of low expectations” than deal with the issue of widespread poverty. Teachers are the universal scapegoat on the road to privatization.
and she will be then forever known, just as all of her peers who have done exactly what you describe, as an infallible education “expert”
“These” education experts are experts-in-name-only unless they are only experts in lying.
Stolen Valor is a term that describes fake combat vets that walk around claiming they have purple hearts and other medals when they don’t.
“The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 was signed by President Barack Obama on June 3, 2013. The Act makes it a federal crime to fraudulently claim to be a recipient of certain military decorations or medals in order to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit.”
America now needs “The Stolen Expert Act” that makes claiming you are an expert when you are not an expert, a federal crime, and every profession must have a valid definition of what it takes to be considered an expert.
A correction: “It will be interesting to see how she turns upside down the public schools of Providence.
Beat me to it. I was going to say turns aground. Or tears down, shuts down, melts down, turns into privatizers’ commercial hunting ground, or prepares as a public education burial mound.
are there powerful people who believe charter schools could be the answer to their monetary problems?
Diane, the entire article can be found at http://www.providencejournal.com. I think you might be able to read the whole thing there…I don’t think you will be blocked.
Thanks, I saw the “breaking news” headline on the Boston Globe site, which is behind a paywall. Thanks for the link to ProJo.
Well there is already an example of a district taken over by the State. It is Central Falls the only other district with mayoral control with an mayor appointed school board. It is also next to Providence the lowest performing district in the state.
It is amazing that the people who broke the Providence Schools now think they have the right to “fix” it. I believe that is one definition of insanity. We have a lot of insanity here in Rhode Island
E O’S W- Do we ever……from the top down….
Predators, by nature, target the most vulnerable which explains why analysis and evidence don’t factor into decisions.
Lets hope she at least gets rid of Summit Learning, which garnered special criticism in the Johns Hopkins report.
The mayor of Rochester, N.Y. has also proclaimed that there will be a takeover of the Rochester Public Schools. Someone I know, a former administrator for that city’s school system who is now a fulltime professor at U.R. sighed & said, It’s the poverty. They need to address the POVERTY.