Klein Is Using Broadway Tickets To Entice Principals to a Meeting

This is a good example of the type of Mad Hatter's Tea Party that Klein has to deal with every day.  Here we have a school system that's failing miserably, yet the head of it has to resort to bribing the critical people -- the principals of the schools -- because the meeting is on -- egads! -- a SATURDAY!  Meanwhile, the best schools that are proving demography is NOT destiny, are regularly open Saturdays ALL YEAR ROUND!

 

This comment should be in the dictionary under the word "chutzpah": "The president of the principals union, Jill Levy, called the offer "disgraceful.""  Her attitude is what's disgraceful!

 

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Klein Is Using Broadway Tickets To Entice Principals to a Meeting

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The New York Sun

BY DEBORAH KOLBEN - Staff Reporter of the NY Sun
April 26, 2006
http://www.nysun.com/article/31617

 

After working almost three years without a contract, many public school principals aren't exactly jumping at the chance to spend a Saturday morning with their boss, the schools chancellor.

 

So Joel Klein is trying a novel approach to lure principals to a citywide meeting focusing on changes to the school system: offering free tickets to Broadway hits like "Hairspray" and "Sweeney Todd."