Sunday, March 12, 2006
D.C. School Board Chairman Not Running For Re-Election
Dion Haynes reports today that Peggy Cooper Cafritz has decided not to run for re-election to her post as Chairman of the D.C. School Board. His article does a good job of capturing the complicated personality of this strong woman.
I remember how aghast I was watching her insult my friend Casey Lartigue at a Cato Institute policy forum at which he released a study on the need for educational choice in the city. If I remember correctly she called him a liar along with sending a bunch of other insults his way. A few months later Miss Cafritz wrote a Washington Post editorial endorsing school vouchers as the only hope of improving D.C. public schools.
About a year before this incident I had met with her and Irasema Salcido from the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy to talk about our difficulties obtaining a permanent facility. She recommended teaming with a developer who would include a school in a building project. This is exactly how the William E. Doar Public Charter School for the Performing Arts got its home.
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I remember how aghast I was watching her insult my friend Casey Lartigue at a Cato Institute policy forum at which he released a study on the need for educational choice in the city. If I remember correctly she called him a liar along with sending a bunch of other insults his way. A few months later Miss Cafritz wrote a Washington Post editorial endorsing school vouchers as the only hope of improving D.C. public schools.
About a year before this incident I had met with her and Irasema Salcido from the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy to talk about our difficulties obtaining a permanent facility. She recommended teaming with a developer who would include a school in a building project. This is exactly how the William E. Doar Public Charter School for the Performing Arts got its home.
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