THE BROAD REPORT: Broad Superintendents Academy

The Eli and Edyth Broad Foundation funds The Broad Center (previously called the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems). The Broad Center conducts TWO training programs primarily for individuals who wish to work in school district settings.

1. The Broad Residency (fna The Broad Residency in Urban Education), a two-year program where participants are placed into full-time high-level managerial positions in school districts, CMOs, and federal/state departments of education. The Broad Center often covers all or part of their salary.

2. The Broad Superintendents Academy (BSA) is a training program held in six-sessions over ten months after which participants may expect to be placed in an urban school district. Applicants are solicited from the fields of education, the military, the private sector, and government. The sessions include contact with companies which specialize in nationwide school executive searches (eg. Ray & Associates and Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates). "Tuition" and travel expenses are paid by the Broad Center, and the Center may also cover some or all of the salary when the participant is placed in a district.*

As Joanne Barkan explains in “Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of VenturePhilanthropy” (Dissent, Winter 2011):

In reform-speak, both the Broad Academy and Residency are not mere programs: they are “pipelines.” Frederick Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, described the difference in With the Best of Intentions: How Philanthropy Is Reshaping K–12 Education (2005):

Donors have a continual choice between supporting “programs” or supporting “pipelines.” Programs, which are far more common, are ventures that directly involve a limited population of children and educators. Pipelines, on the other hand, primarily seek to attract new talent to education, keep those individuals engaged, or create new opportunities for talented practitioners to advance and influence the profession.…By seeking to alter the composition of the educational workforce, pipelines offer foundations a way to pursue a high-leverage strategy without seeking to directly alter public policy.

Once Broad alumni are working inside the education system, they naturally favor hiring other Broadies, which ups the leverage…

* NOTE: Each year from its inception until 2011, the Broad Center issued press releases which announced the number of participants in that year's cohort, along with their names. Starting in 2012, that practice was discontinued. The Broad Superintendents Academy no longer releases information about its graduating classes to the public, although it did continue to invite individuals to apply to its program in 2012 and 2013.

Known participants in alphabetical order:

Alfaro, Robert (2004)

Anderson, Bart G. (2006)

Atkinson, Cheryl L. H. (2006)

Avossa, Robert (2011)

Baker, Jill A. (2005)

Barbic, Chris (2011)

Barry, John (2004)

Bass, Angela (2005)

Blakeney Clark, Anne (2010)

Blaine, Jennifer (2010)

Boasburg, Tom (2009)**

Bobb, Robert C. (2005)

Boone, Melinda (2004)

Brady, Thomas (2004)

Brandon, Yvonne W. (2006)

Brizard, Jean-Claude (J.C.) (2007)

Brown, Mark (2011)

Burt, Helen (2004)

Burt, Walter (2002)

Byas, Dennis D. (2005)

Bynum, Randolph (Randy) (2007)

Carney, Ingrid (2007)

Carter, Arnold (2002)

Cerf, Christopher (2004)

Coleman-Potter, Bonita (2008)

Contreras, Sharon (2010)

Covington, John (2008)

Darden, Thomas (2009)

Dawning, Paula (2002)

Deasy, John E. (2006)

Dilworth, John (2005)

Downing, Kathryn (2002)

Evans, Mark (2003)

Fryer, Lawrence W., Jr. (2006)

Gilbert, Silvanus Taco (2010)

Gill, Paul (2007)

Gist, Deborah (2008)

Glascoe, Michael (2002)

Goodloe-Johnson, Maria (2003)

Gorman, Peter (2004)

Green, Patricia (2002)

Hammond, James Quezon (2010)

Hankins, Paul (2004)

Hanna, Tomás (2008)

Harner, William E. (2005)

Harries, Garth (2009)

Harris, Carl (2002)

Hayes, Aaron B. (2005)

Heatley, Edmond (2008)

Hegedus, Andrew S. (2005)

Heiligenstein, Anne (2010)

Heyer, Erik (2003)

Hite, William R., Jr. (2005)

Hopkins, Delores (2002)

Hughey, Gary (2005)

Hurt, Dorene (2009)

Ingram, Alan (2007)

Jenkins, Barbara (2006)

Jenney, Timothy (2002)

Johns, Christine (2004)

Johnson, Melody (2002)

King, Cheryl (2003)

Knighton, Christine (Nickey) (2007)

Lane, Linda (2003)

Lee, Candy (2004)

Leonard, Steven (2002)

Lepper, Steven (2009)

Levenson, Nathan (2004)

Littman, Kathi (2005)

Loe, Cynthia (2004)

Lowery, Lillian (2004)

Lusi, Susan (2003)

Lyles, Marcia V. (2006)

MacCormack, Penny (2011)

Malone, Matthew (2003)

Manley, Paul (2008)

Manos-Sittnick, Angela M. (formerly Manos) (2006)

Martinez, Pedro (2009)

Materassi, Leaura (2003)

Matthews, Vincent C. (2006)

Mazyck, Veleter (2007)

McCown, Gaynor (2004)

McGann, Barbara (2003)

McGinley, Nancy (2002)

McIntyre, James P., Jr. (2006)

Meléndez de Santa Ana, Thelma (2006)

Micheaux, Donna J. (2005)

Miles, Mike (2011)

Mir, Gasper (2003)

Moore, Reginald (2005)

Morris, Howard (2003)

Morrison, Heath (2009)

Muñoz, Pablo (2006)

Oats, Mike (2011)

Oliver, Bernard (2002)

Olson, Kimberly (2005)

Paquin, Natalye (2004)

Peebles, Thandiwe (2002)

Peppler, Judy (2011)

Pierce, Glenn (2003)

Pitre, Maria (2008)

Polakow-Suransky, Shael (2008)

Polk, Steven R. (2006)

Pombar, Frank D. (2008)

Porter, John Q. (2006)

Purcell, Carlinda (2004)

Randall, Pamela (formerly Hughes) (2004)

Rayer, Ben (2002)

Raymond, Jonathan P. (2006)

Redden, Joseph (2003)

Richardson, Rick (2011)

Robinson, Wendy (2002)

Roosevelt, Mark (2003)

Rose, Joel (2006)

Rosen, Amy (2004)

Rounds, Michael (2010)

Rudden, Eileen (2009)

Runcie, Robert (2009)

Ryder, Beverly P. (2006)

Saavedra, Abelardo (2002)

San Pedro, Ofelia (2005)

Sandoval, Monica (2003)

Scanlan, John (2007)

Scott, Irvin (2010)

Shazor, Marilyn (2010)

Sheffield, LaVonne (2002)

Silva, Valeria (2008)

Sims, Deborah A. (2005)

Spampinato, Lynn (2004)

Statham, Kimberly (2003)

Stecz, Terrence (Terry) (2007)

Stockwell, Robert (2002)

Tata, Anthony (2009)

Terry, Laverne (2004)

Torres, Jose M. (2005)

Van Valkenburg, Frederick D. (2005)

Vigil, Joseph (2002)

Ward, Randolph (2003)

Wardynski, Casey (2010)

Watkins, Patricia (2002)

Wechsler, Norman (2003)

Welch, John (2002)

Whalen, Kathleen (2002)

White, John (2010)

Wilkins, Stephen (2007)

Williams, Bennie (2007)

Wise, Joseph (2003)

**Tom Boasburg's page states he is a "2009 graduate of The Broad Superintendents Academy Intensive," some sort of crash course. This is why he was not listed on the press release which announced the 2009 participants, nor on the press release which announced the 2009 graduates. The regular program is ten weekends over the course of a year.

Since 2002, the Broad Superintendents Academy has produced at least ten graduating classes. The Class of 2002 had 25 participants. The Class of 2007 had 14 participants. The Class of 2011 had eight participants. The cohort size for 2012 and 2013 is not known. See note above.

About the Launch of the BSA

BSA's Attrition and Graduation Rate

Impact Location of BSA Graduates

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.

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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."
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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.

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