Update: More unexpected synergy-- Elena at The Quick and the Ed also blogged on the Annapolis case, encouraging the district to look at what Chattanooga has done.  She writes:

So take note, Annapolis. TN's was an expensive and comprehensive approach to reconstituting schools (and it still wasn't easy). Yours better be too if you want to see real change.

Sounds like what I have said about the Chancellor's District in New York City.  Hey, before you know it, the AFT, the Fordham Foundation and Ed Sector will be joining hands and singing Kumbaya as we walk into Miller's office.

First, Fordham Foundation President Mike Petrilli wrote in The Education Gadfly that NCLB was "fundamentally flawed".  Now, in commenting on Anne Arundel County's recent move to reconstitute Annapolis High School and have all staff reapply for their jobs, Petrilli told the Washington Post:

With the school's publicized plight and its troubles reaching low-income and minority students, the school might not be able to attract experienced teachers, Petrilli said, and more inexperienced teachers might not have the skill to turn it around.

Now that sounds like something I would say. In fact, I did say this, in the form of a question to Kati Haycock at the U.S. Department of Education's first teacher quality forum five years ago.  Haycock's response?  The best teachers should want to teach in the toughest schools.  OK, but aside from those teachers who are more altruistic by nature, how do you get an entire faculty to want to teach in a school that hasn't made AYP four years in a row and where the current staff face an uncertain future?  This is a question that needs to be addressed in the next reauthorization of NCLB and, dare I say, the AFT and the Fordham Foundation might find common ground on strategies that are likely to work?  Perish the thought!