Will the New Superintendent of Los Angeles Expand Charter Schools?
Jack Ross of California-based Capital & Main posed the question: Will Alberto Carvalho, who was recently hired away from Miami-Dade public schools to become the...
Category : Administrators
Miami Superintendent Will Become Los Angeles Chief
The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District has hired Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the schools in Miami-Dade, too PPP become superintendent of the...
Jan Resseger: Does Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Want to Return to Arne Duncan Era?
Jan Resseger is puzzled that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot selected San Antonio Superintendent Pedro Martinez to lead Chicago’s public schools. His experience and views overlap...
Chicago Picks a Corporate Reformer as New Superintendent
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot selected Pedro Martinez, Superintendent of the San Antonio School District, as the Windy City’s public schools. Martinez is a “reformer.” In...
Two Pro-Public School Organizations Are Merging
In the education world, currently controlled by a coalition of billionaires and the rightwing think tanks and legislators they finance, public schools have some valuable...
Peter Greene: Is Your Charter School a Public School?
I like this post by Peter Greene a lot because it clears up confusion about what defines a public school. Many people think that charter...
Florida Voucher School Hires Unqualified Teachers, Ex-Con, State Doesn’t Care
The Orlando Sentinel has been covering scandal after scandal in the voucher schools of Florida, but the Legislature doesn’t care about their scandals and is...
Roy Blunt and the Cowardice of the GQP Establishment
Kevin McDermott of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch excoriated retiring Senator Roy Blunt as a symbol of a cowering GQP establishment that failed to stand up...
Who Is Cindy Marten?
The Biden administration selected San Diego Superintendent of Schools Cindy Marten to become Deputy Secretary of Education, the #2 job in the Department of Education....
Meet Cindy Marten: The New Deputy Secretary of Education
The Biden-Harris administration announced the selection of Cindy Marten, superintendent of schools in San Diego for the past seven years, as its choice for Deputy...