Are We Sure Carmen Farina Is More "Pro-Teacher" Than Current DOE Leadership?

Farina is seen as much more pro-teacher than recent DOE leadership, but she's a tough boss. As principal, she replaced 80% of her staff.
— Lindsey Christ (@LindseyChrist) December 30, 2013

Jose Vilson responded:

@MrHonner @LindseyChrist Agreed too. I don’t know enough about that school to make a determination, but 80% is pretty high.
— Jose Vilson (@TheJLV) December 31, 2013

80% is indeed a pretty high attrition rate.

One might even say it's exceedingly high and a worrisome sign of what's to come.

My sense is, she's a toe-the-line leader and will work to get anybody who doesn't buy into her vision out.

Dunno about you, but I'm not feeling too optimistic about that kind of leadership style.

She was probably the best we were going to do in the current political circumstances, but that doesn't mean I trust her.

Same goes for her boss, Bill de Blasio.

By all means, be happy Walcott is gone and a Barbara Byrd Bennett or Kaya Henderson didn't replace him.

But watch Carmen Farina very, very closely.

That 80% attrition rate she had as a principal is a red flag.

How You'll Know Things Are Really Different

Geo Karo - from a comment on this post:

1) How much day to day life in the school-building changes from the BloomCott era will be the ultimate measure of how much things change under BlasRina.

2) How much things change for the better depends on how much teachers and parents push back against the toxic status quo of corporate education "reform."

In New York City, the teachers' group pushing against the toxic winds of deform is the MORE caucus of the UFT morecaucusnyc.org/‎

The parents' group is Change the Stakes changethestakes.wordpress.com/‎

Indeed.

Unless I'm mistaken, I seem to remember that Farina was part of the BloomKlein mandated RAMP UP curricula gang back in the day.

Celebrate her appointment to Tweed - and watch what she does very, very closely.