The writer was a member of the Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education (also known as the Kirwan Commission), a former Baltimore City school board member, a former deputy mayor of Baltimore and a former Maryland secretary of Human Resources.
If super rich, super smart philanthropists, who made their fortunes as innovators, can’t figure out how to reform public schools, who can?
There is no simple way to reduce chronic absenteeism, especially since it is so linked to economic and social problems at home and in the community. But progress is possible.
Columnist: A new education federalism is the road to follow.
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The writer of a lengthy cover story in the New York Times Magazine earlier this year on Randi Weingarten, head of the national American…