Jason Langberg, an attorney at Advocates for Children's Services, writes on the national Parents Across America blog about Wake County's firing of Superintendent Tony Tata.

A snippet:

On Tuesday, the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Board of Education (BOE) fired Superintendent Anthony Tata, a Broad Superintendents Academy graduate.  The firing of a local school superintendent wouldn’t usually be major national news, but in this instance, it is.  It proves that at least some school systems will still resist significant influence by big money and market-based deformers when it is in the best interests of families, teachers and the community.

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