Gee, it's nice to know that he has "confronted" those pressing issues. Has he actually succeded in addressing any of them, or is he all about "process" with no regard for actual outcomes? (rhetorical question only - Democrats never actually 'solve' problems, they only use them as vehicles for acquiring power or the public's money or both)
The District bought $3 million + worth of specialized media servers. They did not purchase the classroom equipment to make it work, just the head end.
863 schools, no media standardization, each Principal gets to choose whatever they like for any reason. Almost 100 schools did not even have a single projector, and almost none had a projector for each room so the project would work.
Walter Payton High was an exception, but rapidly getting out of date.
Bids had to be approved by the technology committee (good), purchasing (follow the bid rules), a legal team (useless) and then a diversity committee (the ultimate brother-in-law job).
All for a district that pays in Net 90 or longer.
A friend won a job as an Oracle consultant by becoming the subcontractor to a State Senator's son who added 50% to the invoices. The kid started a programming company for this one Oracle project but couldn't program a cell phone. My buddy thinks he can stretch out the Oracle job until he retires.
And these are the people in charge of Washington next year....