A preview of today's activities reported the night before they happen:
1pm at City Hall: Bloomberg announces sweeping changes in the very system he created without once saying there were any mistakes made that would require them to reorganize again. This time it will be boroughs. And when that fails -- hmmm. How about trying local districts?
Your erstwhile Wave reporter will be at this one (maybe):
3:30pm at Tweed: Klein holds press roundtable at a rectangular table, (but why quibble) as he explains the fantastic success of his reorganization of the schools has spawned a new reorganization, this time into even larger entities that will be guaranteed to deliver even less services than the old system. He will announce that he paid A&M consultants 200 million dollars to save a buck fifty. Having only 5 borough regions superintendents will save even more money, but of course their much larger staffs will balance that out. Every school will be forced into empowerment zones which will be monitored by DOE officials who will spend the day driving enormous distances from school to school. He will announce that A&M recommends the DOE hire chauffeur-driven cars for every LIS since that will save money. And since all schools will be empowerment schools, there will be no schools left in the boroughs for the new regions to manage. A&M recommended that with nothing else to do the boroughs invade parochial schools and try to mismanage them. Christopher Cerf will spearhead the movement to identify every school in an area of gentrification that can be sold off and turned into condos. A push will be made to get kids to stay home and be taught by private tutors. Klein will point to this plan from A&M as a brilliant way to reduce class size, which he will point out has no impact on learning, but at least this will shut Leonie Haimson up once and for all.
Now that we know what will happen, do I really need to cover this event?
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
3 comments:
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You're not an erstwhile reporter. You're an erstwhile teacher.
ReplyDeleteMe, I'm back to hall patrol tomorrow.
What's with the snobbery? Hall patrol is not beneath your dignity and it's a shortage area.
ReplyDeleteNot below my dignity. In solidarity with non-retirees, I patrol the hallway in my house every day for 45 minutes. My wife insists I might as well have a vacuum in my hand while doing so. He! There's an innovation for BloomKlein -- hand brooms to teachers.
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