But she has a track record of failure that cannot be ignored. She presided over the virtual total meltdown of the Parents Association structure in that district. Half of the parents associations evaporated under Ms. VanDross' leadership, but we're not surprised. We'll let our readers draw their own conclusions. For the third time in the past twenty years, our schools are facing a crisis.
Corrupt influences are once again at work.
This is just as things were during the days of the disgraced former Borough President Stanley Simon, who brought partisan politics into the schools, and later on during the heyday of Jim Sullivan, now awaiting trial for attempting to fix the 1993 Community School Board election. That election wasn't tainted for the sport of winning, but rather to keep jobs and patronage under the control of those in power, with no concern for our children. In coming months we will be looking at a number of issues. We will look carefully at what retribution is taken against those administrators on School Board member Tom Murray's illegal hit list, for which he was rebuked by the Chancellor. Towards that end, we are putting through a Freedom of Information request to determine which P.A. officers have surfaced in District 10 jobs during the past five years, and will monitor this in coming months.