Let De Blasio Know Rahm Emanuel's School CEO And DCPS Rhee Acolyte Are Unacceptable For NYCDOE

Gotham Schools posted rumors that Rahm Emanuel's schools CEO, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, the woman who helped oversee the closing of 50 Chicago schools in one fell swoop this year, is on Bill de Blasio's short list to be NYCDOE chancellor.

The NY Times reported that Michelle Rhee's old DCPS deputy, Kaya Henderson, now the chancellor of DC schools, is also on the de Blasio short list to be chancellor.

De Blasio ran a campaign that was opposed to the Bloomberg corporate education reforms and called for a transition away from them.

And yet, there are rumors that two of the people on his list for chancellor are die-hard corporate education reformers who pursue an anti-teacher, anti-traditional public school agenda in their current jobs.

Both BBB and Henderson are unacceptable to run the DOE.

You should let the de Blasio transition team know this and can do so at his transition website:

http://transition2013.com/

Or his transition team twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio

I left some tweets myself:

@BilldeBlasio Barbara Byrd Bennett closed 50 schools in Chi, is anti-teacher & anti-student, & is unacceptable for DOE.
— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) December 7, 2013

@BilldeBlasio Kaya Henderson, Michelle Rhee's deputy at DCPS, is also unacceptable for DOE...
— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) December 7, 2013

@BilldeBlasio ...have you checked into her test cheating scandal? Ask Diane Ravitch - she'll tell you about it!
— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) December 7, 2013

@BilldeBlasio Please put someone at Tweed who respects teachers, who respects traditional public schools
— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) December 7, 2013

@BilldeBlasio Please move away from the insane test-based policies that make test scores the only thing that matter!
— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) December 7, 2013

@BilldeBlasio Finally, please give schools the socio-emotional supports they need to help students
— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) December 7, 2013

@BilldeBlasio You said you wanted to transition from Bloomberg ed policies - BBB & Henderson do exact opposite.
— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) December 7, 2013

Now I'm off to write a longer email that makes the same case.

Let de Blasio know that voters gave him a 73% election mandate not to get another four years of the Bloomberg reform policies.