For as long as I can remember, New York has been dumping its losers in New Jersey. New Yorkers have this arrogant attitude, you see, and we offload the stuff we want elsewhere, especially if it is just across the Hudson River.
But now New Jersey has pulled a fast one: they (or at least a couple of Jersey billionaires) are sending New York a guy who was a leading mouthpiece for privatization. He is moving up to the Big Leagues to become CEO of NYCan. This is another of those fake “reform” groups that advocates for privatization as the cure for poverty and the Surefire way to get rid of unions.
His name is Derrell Bradford, and he is an education “expert” who has never taught, has no relevant degrees or experience, but strongly supports vouchers.
Jersey Jazzman knows him well and describes his role in advocating for vouchers.
The origin of these CAN groups is Connecticut, where a group of hedge fund managers got together to advocate for privatization, mayoral control (to speed the pace of privatization), and anti-teacher legislation.
In the psychiatric literature, CAN is an acronym that stands for “child abuse abuse and neglect.”
Welcome to New York, Darrell. If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere, it’s up to you, New York, New York.
Of course, my fondest hope is that you find a different field, say, sports or finance or broadcasting, where your talents are needed.
I hope Mr. Bradford is in Lake Placid this weekend so we can “welcome” him to NY — North Country style. #picketinthepines
From the POV of itinerant educrats and edubullies, a normal condition of being part of the ‘creative disruption’ of children’s, parents’ and communities’ lives:
“I go in, fix the system, I move on to something else.” [Paul Vallas]
Link: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Paul-Vallas–213999671.html
English-to-English translation: ‘I sneak in, put the fix in, move on to other prey.’
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It’s such an embarrassment that my state of CT has spawned this cancerous chain of CANs. The original, ConnCAN, and its followers are still ardently infecting CT, bashing public schools and attempting to propagate more and more charter schools, though now they’ve got some leadership competition from other billionaire-funded pro-privatization activist groups, such as CCER and the Northeast Charter Schools Network. With the powerful aid of our state’s education commissioner (who was a CAN and Achievement First founder and came from Cory Booker’s Newark office after working for Mayor Bloomberg in NYC), ConnCAN/AF/and the others forge ahead with the common agenda of “putting the fix in” (to borrow the apt phrase from KrazyTA) for urban school takeovers — all with the blessings of our governor, state board of education, and legislature. Nevertheless, the anti-public schools cabal, with its unlimited resources for misleading PR, huge media buys, and ought-to-be-illegal campaign contributions seems recently to be losing popularity and political influence. Guess they’ve run dry on demeaning slogans and fear-mongering ploys for selling their tainted goods, because parents, legislators, and other prominent leaders are finally beginning to wake up. Sure hope Mayor de Blasio makes life for Darrell appropriately uncomfortable and far less a piece of cake than what he encountered while propagandizing in NJ.