No Need to Wait Bridgeport – Superman has arrived and he walks in the form of Paul Vallas. - Wait, What?

No Need to Wait Bridgeport – Superman has arrived and he walks in the form of Paul Vallas. - Wait, What?: "Philadelphia’s “Chief Recovery Officer” Thomas Knudsen announced today that forty schools will close next year with six more schools every year after than until 2017.

In a must read story on today’s The Naked City Blog , Daniel Denvir writes that “the remaining schools would get chopped up into “achievement networks” where public or private groups compete to manage about 25 schools, and the central office would be chopped down to a skeleton crew of about 200. District HQ has already eliminated about half of the 1,100-plus positions that existed in 2010.”

Wait, that sort of sounds like what Vallas is talking about doing in Bridgeport.

The blog goes on to reveal that “charter schools will teach an estimated 40 percent of students by 2017.”

And the “Chief Recovery Officer” add that “all custodial, maintenance and transportation work [will be outsourced] to private companies unless union workers could underbid them.”"

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