Follow-up LTE (see post below)

To the editors:

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board has been a constant champion of the "reformers" on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors. You endorsed them and praised their takeover in elections this spring. It seems, though, that you editors need to read the stories your reporters have written.

The only real reforms the "reformers" have demonstrated to date? A disregard for democratic process and unfettered power-grabs.

Your newspaper reported on all of this, beginning with new Board President Ken Johnson's sickening politics in handing out committee assignments ("School Board president denies posts to opponents," May 6):

• Danny Goldberg, who enriched himself through MPS's contracts with the school-reform organization he founded, TALC, now chairs the School Reform committee;
  
• Barbara Horton, the executive director of a voucher school that siphons money from MPS classrooms, chairs the Finance committee;
  
• Peter Blewitt, Jennifer Morales, and Charlene Hardin, who did not support Johnson in the vote for president, each have just one committee assignment;
  
• Goldberg, whose Board experience is zero, has as many committee assignments as Blewitt, Morales, and Hardin combined, despite the latter three's extensive years of service to MPS students and parents.

Now this week we find your newspaper reporting on Johnson's plan to silence opposition to the "reformers" at Board meetings ("Speech rule sparks School Board split," May 24). At what point will the editors realize that these "reformers" are much more concerned with their own power and not at all interested in the people they were elected to represent?

Your humble
folkbum

Are we laying odds that they'll print it? I've got ten bucks on "no."