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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (3142)7/4/2003 12:29:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793719
 
The key is, even when he was successful, the Union would get a School Board in that cancels his contracts.

That was true in Philadelphia but not in Witchita. At least, that was my impression from the show. It seems that Whittle was so gung-ho for expansion that he couldn't manage to really run his schools well, and keeping it up is the hard part. It's not so hard to get a boost when you bring in a new curriculum and spend oodles of money up front. If nothing else, the teachers and students will improve because of all the attention. But keeping it up, when the teachers say, thanks for the new curriculum, we get it now, why should we keep paying you? and the public schools improve due to competition, that's the hard part.

I think Whittle has performed a public service but doesn't have a business model. These super promoters with the reality distortion fields - they always have to watch out that they don't take themselves over the cliff.
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