Bloomberg bringing Green Dot to "turn around" NYC Schools

[Hannah Bell]

The administration is now thinking of testing another approach at two schools in the Bronx: replacing the principals and at least half of the teachers, but keeping the schools and all of their programs running — a strategy known as a turnaround.

The plan would bring together unlikely partners: the New York City Department of Education, the teachers’ union and the founder of a charter school network who is best known for turning around one of the toughest high schools in Los Angeles.

For the charter network, Green Dot America, the plan is an attempt to turn its model into a national commodity of sorts. But Green Dot would also be inheriting some of the city’s most challenging students.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/nyregion/09greendot.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=nyregion&src=me&adxnnlx=1299747751-KfWeszxq/0QEy/55GoXlRQ


Green dot schools = the recipient of 10s of millions from the ed deformers gates & broad & closely connected the the "parent trigger," astroturf org that attempts to get parents/families to turn their public schools into charter schools.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/5995