Andrea Georgsson, the Houston Chronicle editorial writer who got in hot water for donating to Democratic candidates, has left the paper.Bloghouston points us to an item on the blog of Richard Prince, who follows black issues in the journalism world, where the news broke.Georgsson, who formerly was an education reporter at the Chron, tells Prince the decision was her own and she is leaving "to just follow my bliss," which is nice.
Cathy Mincberg, the longtime political semi-honcho who once was HISD's board president and left the district as its chief business officer, is now leaving her latest gig.She had been chief operations officer of the Portland school system, but now she is becoming the V-P and chief academic officer for, ummm, an online-learning company. Or, as the Portland press release puts it, "one of the oldest online education companies in the nation."A real leader in the long and glorious tradition of online
