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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (3142)7/4/2003 2:29:50 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 793719
 
I just watched the "Frontline" hour on PBS this week, entitled, "Public Schools Inc."

Yep, I happened across it last night and saw about 3/4s of it. Not badly done.

The key is, even when he was successful, the Union would get a School Board in that cancels his contracts.

You may have seen something I didn't see. I thought the point was that he didn't perform, for whatever reason. I thought Ted Herzl (sp) line near the end, that it's impossible for k-12 enrepeneurs to make a buck, I thought that was meant as the lesson of the film. Certainly looked that was for Wichita. As for the Philly portion, I though the story line by that point was that he had overexpanded but needed yet more expansion to get dollars to drive the stock price up. Some guy from Columbia Teachers College was brought in to make that point as well.

It's hard for me to say what the Whittle/Edison lesson is. He definitely had a vision; hard to say whether it was a business plan (and it had to be that because it was private sector reforming public sector and, oh by the way, making a buck.)

Certainly, he had the opposition of unions; no surprise there. But it looked as if that opposition was a very minor part of the story. Mainly about Philly and mostly about the failure to get the full 45 schools.
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