I haven't blogged a good deal recently on Huffington Post, so first off, thanks to those of you who've written me about the McGraw Prize in Educati...
Chicago's Walter H. Dyett High School was set up as a house of cards. Arne Duncan, served for years as the absentee landlord. And current CEO Jean-Claude Brizard was recently cast in the role of the evicting sheriff.
Linda Johnson, a Louisiana school board member, was driving in her black Chevrolet Trailblazer on Saturday when her phone rang with an unknown number,...
Education is getting to be more and more like reality TV all the time. A few years ago, no one talked about public schools. Now there are two-day Oprah shows about them.
They command six-figure salaries. No, we're not talking rock stars, pro athletes or even pro coaches. We're talking school superintendents.
Many times, I found myself wanting to skip to the final pages and see Merrow's bottom line.
Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, who has been superintendent of the Recovery School District of Louisiana in New Orleans since 2007, is ...
The more ideas put forward, the more difficult practical action becomes. The more we "innovate," the more resistant and hardened the problems of removing ignorance become.
It's not that I'm sick of Mayor Daley. He's as entertaining as ever, and as much a confounding brew of political genius and moral vulgarity, animal intelligence and intellectual imbecility as he ever was.
Todd Stroger intends to seek reelection, but it's hard to see him weathering an ultra-competitive primary with such shaky credentials.
Nothing that Paul Vallas, Mayor Daley or Arne Duncan did in the last 15 years has had any significant effect on the number of CPS students who can read, write and do basic math acceptably. It's all an illusion.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Paul Vallas, the superintendent of the state-run school district in New Orleans, said he will not run for the Cook County Board in...
Paul Vallas will not be coming home to Chicago to run for public office. ...
Former Chicago Public Schools chief Paul Vallas said today a decision on whether he will make a bid for the Republican nomination for Cook County Boar...
Vallas is finding the doors to the struggling party wide open. Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna says the party should be open to Democ...
Paul Vallas is ready to run again. "Cook County is broken, and I like fixing things that are broken." The speed-talking, reform-minded maverick who w...
Saying he still has work to do to improve New Orleans schools, Paul Vallas said Sunday he won't run for governor of Illinois in 2010. Vallas, who was...
