Mr. Foster Goes To Washington, As a "Mold Breaker"?

This weekend Mayor Bill Foster is heading to Washington D.C. to give a presentation next Monday afternoon at the America's Promise Alliance: Building a Grad Nation Summit. He will be on a lunchtime general session panel of "mold breakers" that "disrupted the status quo". I'm sorry, but are they sure they have the right guy? Mayor Foster is hardly one that would be described as disrupting the status quo, almost always going for the small change instead of big changes, keeping on almost all of his predecessor's staff(except for the ones that quit of course), and always being afraid of lawsuits.

We assume that since this is a conference about education and boosting graduation rates, that Foster will be talking about the Mayor's Mentors and More Doorways Scholarship Program, which wasn't even set up by him, it was set up by his predecessor Rick Baker(yet again, Foster is in Baker's shadow). Foster even managed to tarnish the program through his "heavy handed fundraising" by pushing City employees to donate to the charity. Now don't think that we are saying it's a bad charity, giving scholarships to younger children to give them an incentive to achieve knowing that they have a path to college is a great idea, but like so many things that Bill Foster touches, he managed to stumble his way into messing this one up in some way. I guess that Rick Baker wasn't available to speak at this conference, since he was the real force behind the program, so they had to settle for Bill Foster.

Another interesting side note to this story is that Bill Foster doesn't even really like the Public School system, his own children attended private christian schools, and before he was Mayor he wrote a letter to the school board against teaching evolution because of all of the evil it has caused in history.

At least we aren't paying for Bill Foster's little ego trip up to Washington D.C., the conference organizers are footing the bill for his travel expenses(confirmed through Foster's assistant, Ellen P. McDowell).


UPDATE: this story just got picked up by SaintPetersBlog

UPDATE 2: The City finally put out a press release on this