Reply #219: currently elected, previously appointed (board was put under mayoral

[Hannah Bell]

control in 1999 -- for the same reasons -- graduation rates, etc.). went back to elected board in 2005 -- for the same reasons.

i.e. pols & administrators jerking everyone around; changing jurisdictions & repeated ineffectual "reform" regimes = no stability, nothing gets accomplished.

this is more of the same. gates & co will cream the remaining good students & non-disabled students (& their funding) & throw the rest to the public schools.