Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

Although Designs for Change virtually never complains about newspaper stories, I feel compelled to say that I am astonished by the negative reporting in your Dec. 9, 1992, article titled "Chicago Principals Finding Reform Demands Overwhelming.''

The Chicago principal survey analyzed in the article contains an extraordinary set of findings that you ignored. Chicago principals were the individuals most radically affected by reform and thus are the individuals one would predict would be most negative about it. Further, when the reform law passed, many analysts predicted principals would be at war with the local school councils that now have the power to hire and fire them, and that a sharply negative impact on the quality...