Chicago mayoral candidate, Paul Vallas turned schools into test prep factories, punishing and publicly shaming “failing” schools and teachers.
In 2007, following Hurricane Katrina, Vallas was appointed Superintendent of the Recovery School District in New Orleans, an arm of the Louisiana Department of Education assigned to take over “failing” school districts. Vallas rapidly overhauled New Orleans’s largely Black traditional, public school system, working closely with Paul Pastorek, the Louisiana superintendent of education, an attorney with no formal education training or experience running school districts.
As superintendent of the RSD, Vallas expanded existing departments that managed charter schools and created new ones. At the same time, traditional, primarily Black, schools were either never reopened , were co-located with new charter schools, or given to a newly approved charter management organization.back to the district , but to reconstruct policy so Charter management organizations would decide whether they would go under the control of the local school board.
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