Friday, March 03, 2006
Marc Fisher Also Faults Janey's Plan
From yesterday's Washington Post, Marc Fisher has an excellent column criticizing D.C. School Superintendent Janey's latest master plan. He writes:
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He wants schools to be more autonomous, yet he devotes energy and resources to restructuring the city's middle and junior high schools so they all begin and end at the same grade levels. Much of the plan deals with issues far removed from teachers who demand little of their students, or students who lack basic skills, or parents who threaten and abuse teachers, or administrators who care more about clean and silent hallways than about rigorous academics, or principals facing disruptive midyear budget cuts.But the real reason this article is a gem is that it details many of the past failed reform plans from other Superintendents with grandiose schemes for fixing the schools that ended up in the trash dump without ever being implemented.
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