Eli Broad’s “Superintendent Academy”
School superintendents, like teachers, must also be certificated, which means there are accredited training programs for “would be superintendents”. But again, high profile education reformers, most with little or no education training or experience, wanted to pursue reforms that would not be supported by accredited superintendent training programs. Enter the Eli Broad “Superintendent Academy" and a most disrespectful resolution.
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Although unaccredited for issuing these certificates, the Broad Academy developed a six weekends over ten-month session program that produced “certificated superintendents”, trained in the Eli Broad management philosophy; including corporate style leadership, high-stakes testing, & closing of low test score schools. Highly controversial superintendents Chris Cerf of New Jersey and John White of Louisiana are products of the Broad Academy. Closer to home, Maria Goodloe-Johnson of Seattle, was a Broadie. Among her initiatives in Seattle was to wrongly accuse her own school system of producing fewer than 17% college ready students in order to develop leverage to promote further reforms.
A more disrespectful and unprofessional choice would be hard to imagine.