Instability in school leadership

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http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2015/01/23/Stability-of-leadership-is-a-key-factor-in-Pittsburgh-and-other-school-districts/stories/201501230071

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You are correct, but instability is the GOAL of the Gates and Eli Broad style of reform that PPS succumbed to! Our superintendent, many of the central office staff, and consultants are Broad school graduates as was Mark Roosevelt. Without a doubt, a Broad trained person is being groomed right now to take Linda Lane's place if we don't wake up and do something about it.

The goal of this reform is to create instability and disruptive change. As evidenced by the decline and demise of PPS, this is an awful strategy for school reform. The Broad's academy actually pays to place its trainees in urban schools to create a charter market.

For financially struggling school districts, the Broad Foundation’s offer of trained personnel or services for a free or reduced cost is extremely appealing, and creates a “pipeline” of individuals with the same ideology who can be installed in central office positions.

Eli Broads, Bill Gates, and their foundations believe that public schools should be run like a business. One of the tenets of this philosophy is to produce system change by “investing in a disruptive force.” Continual reorganizations, firings of staff, and experimentation to create chaos or “churn” is believed to be productive and beneficial, as it weakens the ability of communities to resist change.

Does this sound like a good way to run a school? But go ahead and try to fight it. The union, the mayor, A+ school and others sold the public and the children down the river for this "generous" Gates money.
Now central office is overrun with Broad trained staff who will do anything to preserve their six figure jobs. They continue to surround and protect themselves by hiring more like minded Broad's graduates, while the continuous change and restructuring in our schools weakens the ability of parents and teachers to unite and resist their disastrous "reform" agenda.

Many cities involved with the Gates money have figured this out already and some have gotten rid of Broad trained superintendents and staff or refused Gates money. Pittsburgh is catching on, hopefully before it is too late. This is what the money bought us. It never touched the kids."