It seems that English High is on the brink of closure due to consistent underperformance. The school, and its principal, Jose Duarte, have been granted a one-year reprieve to turn it around. To help him, Mr. Duarte has been given a moratorium on union work rules, allowing him “greater leeway over faculty appointments.”
As Mr. Duarte and his teachers strive to turn English High around, I wish them only the best. But my question is this: If the state believes that suspending union work rules and granting a principal the leeway to appoint his faculty are necessary to save a school, wouldn’t such practices help avoid the whole mess in the first place?
