Frances Gallo, who was Superintendent of Central Falls, the state’s lowest performing district, was made interim superintendent of the state-controlled Providence District.
She will be replaced in 90 days.
When Gallo led Central Falls in 2010, she threatened to fire every employee of the high school, even the lunchroom employees, to punish them for the district’s low scores. After a time of national notoriety, she left the public sector to work for a charter chain.
Central Falls today remains the lowest scoring and the most impoverished district in the state.
In her new post, Gallo promises sweeping changes:
While Gallo’s tenure as superintendent will be short, she will hold the role during the first day of school, after a full summer of discussion and debate about what to do in the wake of the Johns Hopkins report that painted a dire picture of the schools back in June.
“I’m going to turn the place upside down,” Gallo told reporters.
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In other words, the extremist, greedy, power-hungry, morally corrupt billionaires/millionaires (exactly like Besty DeVos) behind the subversion and/or destruction of America’s public schools have exactly the kind of vampire, subhuman they want in charge of that poor public school district.
Meanwhile, the children that live in poverty will continue to suffer in poverty while profession teachers are punished for that poverty that they are not responsible for and have no way to solve.
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Lloyd, you hit the nail on the head.
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Public Hanging
Hanging from the Gallos
They make a creaking sound
As Frances Gallo bellows
“I’ll turn you upside down”
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modern-day ed policy appears to be: those who work with the poor must be identified and punished
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I’m a Providence teacher of 24 years. This is our second go around with Gallo.
First thing we need in the schools is discipline. Then we need a curriculum that addresses students on 2nd and 3rd grade levels, in 9th,10th, etc grade classes. We need our students on a 5 year high school program to NOT be counted as dropouts bc they aren’t on a 4 year high school track. We need to stop forcing SLIFE students and newcomers to take standardized tests when they can’t read what the test asks.
Those are some of the issues. There’s so much more.
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SLIFE??
Please help this self-diagnosed AIIDS* sufferer to understand what that means.
*AIIDS = Acronym Identification Impairment Disorder Syndrome. To be included in the DSM-X
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Students with limited or interrupted formal education
SLIFE
they may have had no schooling or breaks in education. Also, many are refugees or come from war torn countries
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Thanks! Had not seen that one.
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My pleasure. I’ve taught many. One year, I had students would didn’t know how to form the letters of the alphabet in my class. They were 16 years old. I taught them how to write …. in math class.
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PTU:
You should realize that many who comment on this blog don’t believe in “more discipline”. They believe things like, “Kids will show respect if you give them respect. If they’re disrespectful, it’s only because you’re treating them disrespectfully”. And a caring and compassionate demeanor is basically all you need to create an orderly classroom. They believe the current orthodoxy that suspensions and expulsions are signs of an evil “school-to-prison pipeline” and that it’s imperative to reduce these. It sounds like you demur (I certainly do). Love is not enough; negative consequences with teeth are needed too.
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I don’t care what they believe. I live it every day and see what happens with lack of consequences.
I invite these people to come to my class to exemplify their best practices. No one ever bites.
Kids need structure. They need to learn how to act appropriately in social and professional situations. They also need to practice self control. That’s missing in Providence.
I do believe in give respect and get respect. However, it works both ways. Disciplining students for inappropriate behavior has nothing to do with disrespect on the teacher’s part. Kids are kids and they do inappropriate things regardless of who you are. Making kids feel uncomfortable about certain shortcomings they may have is disrespect. It’s not their fault they are 6 grades behind in their math but are forced to take these classes. No need to make them feel foolish if they don’t understand the concepts.
But yes. They need strong discipline mixed with an understanding of underlying issues causing such behavior.
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Does the Dept. of Ed. at Johns Hopkins most resemble a billionaire-gifted think tank or a university? (“Don’t Surrender the Academy”, co-written by Frederick Hess and a manager of a Gates-funded ed organization is worth a read (Philanthropy Roundtable).
Chester Finn is on Maryland’s state school board. Pondiscio, author of the recent “no excuses” throwback to the 1950’s, is Finn’s colleague from Fordham. (Fordham’s unusual path to funding is detailed at NonPartisan Education Review)
BTW, what is the number of black people in management at Fordham? Surely, Fordham, which runs a charter school network in Ohio could select a graduate they deem to be a success to be among their executive ranks?
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One need only look at the list of “partners” of the John’s Hopkins Institute for education Policy to answer your question
Partners
We are privileged to work with the following fine organizations:
Abell Foundation
The Achelis & Bodman Foundation
Alliance for Excellent Education
America Achieves
Amplify
Baltimore’s Promise
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
CCSSO
Charles Koch Foundation
Chiefs for Change
Deans for Impact
Fund for Educational Excellence
Great Minds
Hunter College at CUNY – View Archived Content
Learning First
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
NWEA
Open Society Institute – Baltimore
PARCC
Pathway 2 Tomorrow
Relay Graduate School of Education
Schmidt Futures
Science of Learning Institute
Walton Family Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation
In other words, it’s a wanker tank.
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“Partners”, a term that is often employed by villainthropic non-profits.
J-H’s Advisory Board, thin on qualifications.
Billionaire grants to its faculty.
Walks like a duck.
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Why would you put an outsider in a position for only 90 days?
The only thing I can think of is so she can tear the place apart and then get out of Dodge before anyone can rein her in.
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This is our second go around with her. Bc the first time worked. NOT
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