THE BROAD REPORT: BSA Class of 2010

Monday, July 12, 2010

BSA Class of 2010

14 = NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED IN FEBRUARY 2010

11 = NUMBER OF GRADUATES

PARTICIPANTS LISTED FOR THE CLASS OF 2010

Blaine, Jennifer
Byrne, Sean
Clark, Ann Blakeney
Contreras, Sharon
Gilbert, Silvanus Taco
Hahn, Daniel
Hammond, James Quezon
Heiligenstein, Anne
Kopplin, Andy
Rounds, Michael
Scott, Irvin
Shazor, Marilyn
Wardynski, Casey
White, John

DID NOT GRADUATE

Byrne, Sean
Hahn, Daniel
Kopplin, Andy

4 = NUMBER OF GRADUATES CURRENTLY LISTED AS “FEATURED ALUMNI.”

Hammond, James Quezon
Rounds, Michael
Scott, Irvin
Wardynski, Casey

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM 2010 PRESS RELEASES, ETC.:
February 2010 press release

POSITIONS HELD BY INCOMING PARTICIPANTS
Blaine, Jennifer	Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, Spring Branch Independent School District, Houston
Byrne, Sean	Commanding General of the Army Human Resources Command, Alexandria, Va.
Clark, Ann Blakeney	Chief Academic Officer, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, N.C.
Contreras, Sharon	Chief Academic Officer, Providence Public Schools, R.I.
Gilbert, Silvanus Taco	Corporate Director of Strategic Planning, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Reno, Nev.; Brigadier General (Ret.)
Hahn, Daniel	Former Chief of Operations, NATO Afghan Operations; Major General (Ret.)
Hammond, James Quezon	Superintendent, Davis Joint Unified School District, Calif.
Heiligenstein, Anne	Commissioner, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Austin, Texas
Kopplin, Andy	Senior Advisor to the Founder and CEO, Teach For America, La.
Rounds, Michael	Director, Human Performance Resource Center, United States Army; Brigadier General (Ret.)
Scott, Irvin	High School Academic Superintendent, Boston Public Schools, Mass.
Shazor, Marilyn	Chief Executive Officer, Metro Transit System, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Ohio
Wardynski, Casey	Director, Office of Economic & Manpower Analysis, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; Colonel
White, John	Deputy Chancellor for Strategy and Innovation, New York City Department of Education, N.Y.

3 comments:

AnonymousApril 13, 2013 at 3:09 PM
Sharon Contreras is now destroying the school district in Syracuse, NY as its superintendent.
ReplyDelete
Replies
AnonymousJune 15, 2014 at 3:40 PM
The Syracuse Teacher's Union gave a "no confidence" vote last week 95% voting for the "no confidence". Go to Syracuse.com for more
ReplyDelete
Replies
AnonymousJuly 1, 2014 at 3:25 PM
Casey Wardynski is doing the same in Huntsville, AL
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Welcome

THANK YOU for visiting The Broad Report. Yes, I know this website is overdue for its updating (more about the Broad Residency, Brizard's departure from Rochester and transfer to Chicago, Gorman's initiation of extreme amounts of testing, a deeper look into the superintendent search firms being hired by school districts, etc.), but you'll still find a lot of worthwhile information here.

Be sure to check my other blogs:
– THE PERIMETER PRIMATE
– CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS

Follow the Perimeter Primate on Twitter.

Some associated sites:
-DFER Watch (Democrats for Education Reform)
-Gates Education Report (as in Bill)

Send tips to perimeterprimate@yahoo.com.

The Master Plan to eliminate urban public school districts

As clearly outlined by Andy Smarick in Wave of the Future (2008):

First, commit to drastically increasing the charter market share in a few select communities until it is the dominant system and the district is reduced to a secondary provider. The target should be 75 percent.

Second, choose the target communities wisely. Each should begin with a solid charter base (at least 5 percent market share), a policy environment that will enable growth (fair funding, nondistrict authorizers, and no legislated caps), and a favorable political environment (friendly elected officials and editorial boards, a positive experience with charters to date, and unorganized opposition). [Smarick's suggests the "potentially fertile districts" of Albany, Buffalo, Denver, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Oakland, and Washington, D.C.]

Third, secure proven operators to open new schools. To the greatest extent possible, growth should be driven by replicating successful local charters and recruiting high-performing operators from other areas.

Fourth, engage key allies like Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools, and national and local foundation to ensure the effort has the human and financial capital needed.

Last, commit to rigorously assessing charter performance in each community and working with authorizers to close the charters that fail to significantly improve student achievement.

If you view Smarick's 2008 article, you will see a chart listing the dominant providers at that time. (Figure 2: Replicating Charter Success"). Just two years later, we now know that the #2 and #4 ranked charter managers, White Hat Management and Imagine Schools, Inc., have been embroiled in lawsuits and scandal. The #1 ranked EMO, Edison Schools, ended up failing. It folded and has re-emerged with a new name and plan (Edison Learning).

So much for a fine and upstanding history of charter school "success."
---
PS: Read Jim Horn's June 2010 projection for the future of charters.

On Kaufman and Broad/KB Homes

- Homeowner nightmare: A KB Home Sucks
- Broad defends pal [Bruce Karatz] facing 20 felony charges
- Bruce Karatz found guilty on stock option backdating charges
- Michael Fiorillo's observation:

"It's revealing that Broad earned the first of his many fortunes building gated communities and subdivisions in white flight suburbs of Southern California. Originally named Kaufman and Broad, the company is now known as KB Homes, the stock of which is a major part of his foundation's endowment.

"So, a fortune created by federally subsidized housing inequalities is then channeled into a tax exempt foundation that funds the dismantling of the public schools and creation of a separate and unequal education system. It's almost like a perpetual motion machine, as designed by Mephistopheles."

What is Propaganda?

[Definition #3 in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition]

"The systematic propagation of information or ideas by an interested party esp. in a tendentious way in order to encourage or instill a particular attitude or response. Also, the ideas, doctrines, etc., disseminated thus; the vehicle of such propagation."

To be most effective, propaganda must be widely and continuously disseminated. If you have millions and millions of dollars to spend on propaganda for your "cause," you'll be able to persuade people to believe just about anything.

However, not everyone is susceptible.

Pages

Monday, July 12, 2010

BSA Class of 2010

BSA Class of 2010

3 comments: