While most news outlets and sports blogs this morning are focusing on his NBA basketball career, we’re praising the 15 point mayoral victory of education reformer Kevin Johnson over incumbent Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo. While Johnson is known for being one of the NBA’s greatest point guards, his true claim to fame is (or ought to be) his successful charter school organization, St. Hope Academy, serving nearly 1,500 disadvantaged students in Sacramento. With this dynamic leader at the helm we’re anxious to see if he’ll follow Mayors Adrian Fenty of D.C. and Michael Bloomberg of NYC and take mayoral control of Sacramento’s troubled school system to institute widespread reform. We’ll just have to wait and see…
Tags: education reform, election, mayor, sacramento, st. hope academy
November 6, 2008 at 9:48 pm
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