Gunpowder Chronicle posted on June 13, 2007 10:04 PM | Rating:
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Dr. Charlene Cooper Boston -- living proof that PhD stands for "Piled Higher and Deeper" is out as Baltimore City Schools CEO, according to the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter.
The City School System has selected New York's #2 administrator, Andres Alonso, who turns 50 on Thursday.
It seems that Dr. Nowledge's game didn't play on North Ave any better than it did on Long Ave.
Dr. Boston was an utter failure in Wicomico County, largely because she failed to connect with the community and the teachers. She never moved to Wicomico County, maintaining residency on the Western Shore. She never invested herself in the community. She was an empty suit, lacking ideas, vision, and leadership in a school system that really needed it. Oh, and she couldn't spell (that is why she is called Dr. Nowledge). She wasn't respected by her staff, and wasn't even respected by a local NAACP branch that had been screaming for a long time for a black school superintendent.
It has been long suspected by my friends on the "Wild Turkey Phone" that Dr. Nowledge that she only viewed her job in Wicomico County as a stepping stone back into the Baltimore City School System, where she would return as a triumphant administrator to lead the system back into success. She got her wish the Wicomico County School Board wisely chose not to renew her contract. (Mysteriously, the Baltimore City School CEO position re-opened just about the same time).
Her tenure in the City Schools has been as much of a failure. On her watch, massive fraud occurred, leading to the conviction of a city administrator. And it has been recentlly revealed that the city paid for repairs that were never performed, or performed in such a substandard manner as to be worthless.
Word out of North Ave is that she was shocked when she was informed, as she thought she was a shoe-in for the job. She thought the color of her skin, her gender, and her experience in the Baltimore City School System would make her the pick of the litter. Oh well.
Meanwhile, Baltimore continues its inferiority complex to New York City. Remember the last two times we took New York's castoffs? You remember Police Commissioners Clark and Norris, right? Both New Yorkers-- top of the game police types, right? What happened. Ed Norris went to jail for skimming the till (and tomcatting with Marty the Mick O'Malley). Clarke got fired for investigating Marty The Mick O'Malley's tomcatting. Don't believe me? Ask Mr. Baltimore Blast. He can tell you, when he isn't buying Jennifer Gilbert of Fox 45 a new rack.
The last New York hand-me-down that did us any good was Rick Dempsey.
I think Alonso will fail too. The problems in the Baltimore City School System cannot be fixed. If God himself were appointed CEO, he would apply the Noah option (destroy it in a flood and start over).