"for wide [is] the gate, and broad* the way...

that leads to destruction..." (Matthew 7:13, KJV)

It looks like both Los Angeles and Chicago are joining the Broad superintendents' club:

• John Deasy, Broad class of 2006, will be leading the Los Angeles Public Schools coming there from--wait for it--the Gates Foundation (he was brought into LAUSD two years ago with the expectation that he would take over, 'though it appears that not all are happy with that).
• Jean-Claude Brizard, Broad class of 2007, will be leading the Chicago Public Schools, leaving Rochester, NY, where the teachers overwhelmingly voted "no confidence" (by ballot) this past February. As this due largely, it seems, to an autocratic, non-consultative manner, one holds little hope that parents in Chicago will feel any more listened to than they currently do.

*I should point out that Eli Broad, and thus the Foundation, pronounces this to rhyme with "road," but it seems singularly appropriate, nonetheless.

EAW vote links

In addition to the Telegram and Gazette's story today on the EAW vote of no confidence, you may want to read the Worcester Magazine blog posts. In fairness, one should also point out that those on 508 broke the story.