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I think WCSD will do just fine trying to clean up the mess Heath Morrison created if he somehow gets the CMS sup job Peter Gorman is trying to get for him.

Speaking of CMS sup candidates, Memphis sup Kriner Cash got lousy reviews from teachers there.
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The worldwide economy appears to be headed toward chaos as it continues on its slump downward.
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It is LONG overdue to dump Arne Duncan--and his boss, quite frankly--for creating such a mess in public school districts throughout the country with his "reforms."

Like school boards across the country, Atlanta's honchos turned a deaf ear to the children and communities they supposedly serve, even refusing to consider repurposing the empty school buildings as local community resources. In the rush to privatization, school buildings are valuable real estate prizes that can be awarded to well connected developers, and the only kind of economic development anybody has ever heard of is moving poorer people out of neighborhoods to attract richer ones in.

Atlanta is following the same script as Chicago and Philly and New York and Los Angeles and New Orleans. It's a bipartisan agenda of standardized testing calculated not to teach children, but to furnish the grounds to brand teachers and schools as "underperforming" so that staff can be fired, schools closed, and their resources funneled to charter school operators.

It's a local problem, but it's national policy. Atlanta's school superintendent is much like Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in that he's never taught an hour in any classroom. Duncan learned all he needed to know about education from his mother's tutoring programs, he says, and his time as a pro basketballer, his time in the financial markets and on Mayor Daley's staff. Atlanta's Eroll Davis says he learned all he needed to know about running a school system from his time serving on the board of British Petroleum.