Edspresso, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the Chalkboard all have the vapor's over Newark Mayor Cory Booker's hopes to take over that city's troubled schools and expand school choice (specifically, vouchers and recruiting a KIPP school) there. Booker is indeed dreamy, but he does seem to face a daunting uphill battle on this stuff, not to mention myriad other problems in the city he runs.
Meanwhile, D.C.'s own Mayor McDreamy, Adrian Fenty, has elaborated what he will do to fix the District's royally messed up special education programs if--looking increasingly less iffy--he gets control of the schools. This is important because failure to serve special education students effectively, and the enormous cost of private special education placements this leads to, may be the single biggest discrete problem facing DCPS. James Forman, writing at Edspresso, has some more advice for Fenty about engaging the community to improve the schools.
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