New York Daily News
“Mayor de Blasio unveiled his Renewal Schools plans little more than a year ago with patented ambition, pledging his $400 million program to infuse 94 chronically struggling campuses with more support services and teacher development would transform teaching and learning.
‘We will demand fast and intense improvement,’ he said , ‘and we will see that it happens.’ The mayor added that his ‘impatience for change comes from a very personal place.’
Rhetoric of revolutionary urgency, meet reality of bureaucratic baby steps.”