From Mondayis News, hereis the charge:
According to the union, Williams said African-American principals are leading the lowest-performing high schools in the district and are not cooperating with his reform plan. White principals, he allegedly said, are cooperating and doing “a fantastic job.”
Hereis Williamsi version of the story, from the same article:
Williams said Monday his comments at the meeting were not sweeping in nature but were specific to the performance of high school principals in relation to SAT preparation courses offered earlier this year, implementation of Commencement Academies for students working below grade level and attendance at meetings he called at the end of the school day.
“I’m getting cooperation from the majority of my principals, but my African-American principals aren’t following through with some of the things I think they should be doing,” he said. “We need our African-American principals to be leaders in our communities. That’s the context in which I made the remarks.”
Williams said he was pleased with the SAT prep efforts at South Park High School and City Honors School, which then had white principals, but not at East and McKinley high schools, which have African-American leaders.
“I have a South Park and a City Honors. I have a McKinley and an East,” he said. “Look who’s heading those schools.”
At the same time, Williams said he was pleased by the overall efforts at Bennett High School, which has an African-American principal, as well as the work of several African-American elementary school principals.
Hereis the question:
Since Dr. Williams is standing by his claim, and as there’s really no delta between the claim of the principals’ union and what Dr. Williams admits to having said, why isnit the union trying to disprove the claim rather than merely calling the claim idespicablei and asking for disciplinary action against the Superintendent?
Hereis a suggestion to the union representing Buffalo school principals:
Prove that Dr. Williams is wrong, that many of the poorest performing schools ARENiT headed by African-American principals and that they ARE cooperating and complying with his agenda and doing the things heis asked them and needs for them to do.
And if you canit, which I strongly suspect is the case, please, for the love of God, PLEASE…