Under the direction of the Carl Paladino haters on the Buffalo School Board, the students (mostly minority BTW) have suffered horribly, Their graduation and proficiency rates are...criminal. Seriously, running a school system that spends about $1 Billion / year, and puts kids out there with about 15% proficiency rates is the real issue. The Buffalo schools are turning out tens of thousands of kids every year who are destined for a horrible life filled with misery, joblessness due to a complete lack of basic needed skills, and much, much worse.
Is Carl a non politically correct old white guy? You bet your ass he is. Are his attempts at humor on the edge? Absolutely. He is, however, absolutely correct in his efforts to turn the system around for those kids.
Personally, rather than take all of the shit he is taking, - and with much of it coming from those who have not done even 1% of the work that he has done to try and turn it around, if I were Carl, - I would pack it in. I would cash out, and move out of this god forsaken state, and as I parted, I would post a great big bulletin board message that told off his attackers in no uncertain terms.
In fact, I'll go so far as to predict that 5 years after Carl is off of the board, that the same racist clowns that are milking the system dry and producing failure will be whining for even more money, and blaming everyone else for the entrenched problems.