St. Louis Public Schools just fired Creg Williams. Current Board President confused herself with a manager and suggested she just needed more control….
then another of the geniuses who fired them was pissed off because there just weren’t enough administrators who were familiar with St. Louis.
This was by design. St. Louis is notoriously a small town in a big metro area where everyone is everyone’s friend. When you are trying to actually educate kids instead of keeping people employed, that’s a problem.
Williams is originally from Chicago and followed Vallas to Philly. He won’t be unemployed long as he’s a hell of an administrator and very strong in high school reform–a vexing problem in almost all urban high schools.
How about starting that invasion soon? Illinois, come to our rescue.
he’s a hell of an administrator and very strong in high school reform–a vexing problem in almost all urban high schools.
Drop the “urban,” as it’s a problem in almost all high schools, period. That said, the implementation problems are different in large school districts.
Ummm, not such a good idea to dumb down St. Louis schools to the level of Chicago.
Chicago is outperforming the SLPS for several years now. It’s really sad–and a big part of that is the work that Vallas and people like Williams did in Chicago.
In other news: Stroger Jr. gets the nod in Cook County. It wasn’t even close. Where’s the Green Party when you need them?
Oh, man, why wasn’t he available back when Peoria’s District 150 hired that worthless race baiter and crook Kay Royster? Why wasn’t he available when District 150 decided to replace her, and they instead chose home-town yes-man Ken Hinton. If any school district needs to reform its high schools, it’s District 150.
I didn’t think much of anyone was under-performing Chicago. Barely half graduate high school and less than 20% go to college, something like that. St. Louis must be in really bad shape, I had no idea.