Sometimes the future is plain to see. When NASSP Executive Director Gerald N. Tirozzi addressed the 2010 NASSP Convention last Friday, he sounded an alarm to principals that the Obama administration had invested so much money and political capital in four misguided school improvement models--all of which call for the principal's termination as a first step--that it was inevitable that those models would appear in their ESEA blueprint proposal.

The very next day, ED issued its blueprint, and--sure enough--there the models were. If you didn't hear Dr. Tirozzi's address, it's worth 15 minutes of your time.

And please make your next stop the Princpal's Legislative Action Center, where you can, as Dr. Tirozzi encourages, "educate your members of Congress" on what these models will really mean for schools.