{"id":7565,"date":"2009-10-19T21:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2009-10-19T21:43:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T02:43:44","slug":"mayoral-control-second-thoughts-third-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/10\/mayoral-control-second-thoughts-third-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral Control: Second Thoughts? Third Thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hamlet\"At the Marquette Educator, Dean Bill Henk has an interesting new post on the proposed mayoral takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools<\/a>.\u00a0 Bill chronicles Mayor Barrett’s hesitant, on-again-off-again\u00a0embrace of the proposed takeover.\u00a0 Contrary to the conventional wisdom that politicians always want more power, Barrett is displaying a marked lack of enthusiasm for taking on responsibility for the schools.\u00a0 Does this have any implications for the wisdom of a takeover?\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the one hand, given both\u00a0the importance and the difficulty of turning MPS around, it would be nice to see more passion, more vision, and more tenacity from the person who proposes to lead the effort.\u00a0 On the other hand —\u00a0well, I am reminded of Woody Allen’s old quip that he would never want to belong to a club that would have him.\u00a0 We might rightly suspect that any politician\u00a0who wants responsibility for MPS does not really understand the magnitude of system’s difficulties.\u00a0 Perhaps the Mayor’s reservations are evidence of the sort of good judgment that will be necessary for MPS’s next leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Marquette Educator, Dean Bill Henk has an interesting new post on the proposed mayoral takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools.\u00a0 Bill chronicles Mayor Barrett’s hesitant, on-again-off-again\u00a0embrace of the proposed takeover.\u00a0 Contrary to the conventional wisdom that politicians always want more power, Barrett is displaying a marked lack of enthusiasm for taking on responsibility for 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