This is the lead expert witness in the Wolk case against LMSD?

 

This 2015 op ed is written by Michael T. Rock. At that time he was a Unionville–Chadds Ford School Board Director. He is a Samuel and Etta Wexler Professor of Economic History at Bryn Mawr College. 

He seems like a pretty decent human being, too.

Professor Rock states the following:

Jeff’s and his colleague Keith Knauss’ political action committee aims to promote what they called efficient education. When I first joined the Board Keith encouraged me to visit their website Efficient Education. What I found there was alarming—the use of shoddy statistical work and cherry picking of the academic literature to suit their ideological predispositions. As a practicing research economist I was appalled. To make matters worse, Jeff’s political action colleague said at a recent Board meeting that he’d like to see the UCFSD create a KIPP charter school. Except for the Hellrung/Knauss ideological predispositions, I can’t see how this makes any sense. Sad to say, I’m led to conclude that Jeff not only carries his political predispositions into his role as a school board member, now he is parlaying his political action work into a local school board election outside his region where it has no place.  

The author of this letter has confirmed that the "colleague" who wanted to bring a Kipp Charter School to the UCFSD was none other than Keith Knauss, the lead expert witness in the Wolk vs. LMSD case.

Is this what he wants in Lower Merion? Is he using "... shoddy statistical work and cherry picking of the academic literature to suit... ideological predispositions"?

 See it yourself in The Times of Chester County here.