WaPo reports on what D.C. residents think of incoming Mayor Adrian Fenty's ambition to take over DC's troubled school system. The general verdict: people want change, so they're down for pretty much anything, but some are skeptical Mayoral control will fix the problem.
DC PTA president Darlene Allen sure doesn't: "It's not the structure that causes the problem, it's the people who are being elected," she told the Post. But if DC school board politics play out in such a way that either the people voters have to choose from are not very good or voters consistently pick people who don't run the board well, doesn't that at some point suggest a broader structural problem with how we select our school boards and maybe the need for alternatives?
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