Reply #15: it WORKED in chicago

[mopinko]

a school board full of cronies and cronies of cronies bled the system dry with contracts for bullshit. there was no accountability whatsoever. daley asked for and got to be the final authority because things were in such a mess that anything had to be better. you will hear differently from folks whose ox was gored, but that is the truth. nclb made a mess of much of the progress, but the system is still an order of magnitude better after the team of daley and duncan.

and parental input is not all it is cracked up to be. i have seen the local school councils here make a flipping mess of their responsibilities. personalities and high school drama rule many, many schools. these untrained and uneducated people should be advisory only, imho.