When parents send their children
somewhere other than the local public
school, it's not because they believe that the private market is the best way
to deliver education or that their child will benefit from a longer bus
ride.
Somewhere between «Look Ma, No Hands» and the 2008 hit «Handlebars» by the rock band Flobots (lyrics: «I can
ride my bike with no handlebars, No handlebars, No handlebars»), stands education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas who, as we predicted yesterday, announced today that there is absolutely no problem because he can be both superintendent of
schools in Bridgeport ($ 229,000 a year plus benefits) and take on a $ 1 million dollar contract
to «repair low - performing
schools in his home state of Illinois» without breaking a sweat.