One school board member, Frank Borzellieri, said the board voted against Mr. Quinn because he was a bad administrator who had not inspired high test scores in the district.
But analysts said the accusations of influence peddling had the potential to gain more traction with voters, and Mr. Serra is starting to pursue the issue vigorously, saying Ms. Rousseff was either a bad administrator for not knowing about it or had committed a crime if she did know.
Though Mr Arafat has been a bad administrator and worse negotiator, he remains unsurpassed at representing his people's aspirations and is probably the only one who might, just might, persuade them to do something they do not like.Nor would any of the possible contenders want the job.
She is not an obvious presidential candidate: an efficient though notoriously bad-tempered administrator, she only joined Lula's Workers Party PTPT) in 2001.
That is partly because most of them have had bad experiences with administrators, police, and interpreters back home.
In his 2009 Thanksgiving blog post, he wrote, "We hear too much chin music about how hard it is to get rid of a few bad teachers and administrators — and not near enough about how to honor the many, many good ones".
Originally, as I started this book project, my focus was on what I call "unlearning liberty": that is, the frightening tendency of students to learn from omnipresent speech codes (71% of public campuses have laughably unconstitutional codes) and the bad examples of administrators that censorship is not only an acceptable option, but actually something that good people do.
"We've had situations where an educator sometime during the year does something to get on the bad side of an administrator and the administrator in March says: 'Oh, by the way, I'm going to evaluate you this year,'" said Alex Capresidentl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles.
Things got so bad, he said, that administrators once issued a memo boasting that they had stocked the bathrooms with toilet paper.
The film heads smack into the controversies around so-called parent trigger laws that in California and a handful of other states allow parents to dump bad teachers and overrule administrators in bottom-ranked schools.
