More Bureaucrats - Hurray!

"Ousted schools chief tapped for new post" by Sharon Noguchi, 05/01/08 Mercury News

Colleen Wilcox, who was ousted as schools chief of Santa Clara County after an investigation found she humiliated employees, soon will return to the education spotlight as an advocate for teachers in Silicon Valley.

Wilcox briefly discusses her new job.

"We'd really like to elevate the status of teachers throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties" by dramatically improving teaching, Wilcox said. The goal, she said, is to "create the world's greatest teachers" and entice them to stay put.

I'm very skeptical of things like this. This isn't a program putting more resources into training and recruitment. It's a program spending money (on Wilcox) to lobby for more training and recruitment. Do we really think that teachers are suffering because there aren't enough bureaucrats? Sure, the teachers have unions but someone who lost her job because she humiliated her employees is what they really need.