{"id":942,"date":"2007-04-29T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=942"},"modified":"2007-04-29T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T23:08:08","slug":"not-quite-robespierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Not quite Robespierre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein&#8217;s foolishness has now reached the point where Diane Ravitch described&nbsp;it&nbsp;simply as a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/Bridging-Differences\/2007\/04\/sorry_situation_in_nyc.html\">sorry situation in NYC<\/a>. The description is accurate with four years&nbsp;of revolving reorganizations and mandates. The Coalition To Put the Public Back in Public Education managed to achieve some <a href=\"http:\/\/edwize.org\/coalition-agreement-with-new-york-city-doe\">significant changes<\/a> in the planned re-re-reorganization of the city&#8217;s schools. So it&#8217;s a reorganization of the re-re-reorganization (but relieving). <\/p>\n<p>Reading about all of this long-distance gives me the sense that neither Bloomberg nor Klein have a clue about how schools run or should run and have attempted to belittle opponents as a substitute for leadership. If this is a model for mayoral control for schools, please let me off the bandwagon at the next stop. <\/p>\n<p>(No, I was never on the bandwagon in the first place.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein&#8217;s foolishness has now reached the point where Diane Ravitch described&nbsp;it&nbsp;simply as a sorry situation in NYC. The description is accurate with four years&nbsp;of revolving reorganizations and mandates. The Coalition To Put the Public Back in Public Education managed to achieve some significant changes in the planned re-re-reorganization of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}