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Showing posts with label Bloomberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloomberg. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2008

UFT's Paul Egan Makes the Case...

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...for the uselessness of the UFT In opposing the ICE amendment to the term limits resolution, UFT District 11 (Bronx) rep Paul Egan made th...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Joel Klein devises a plan in which he can stay in power....forever!

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Get the dope at the NYC Public School Parent blog . Also check out Leonie Haimson on the Absurd, Ham-Handed Bloomberg Third Term PR Wave Hi...

Is the NYC Parks Department Racist?

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One would certainly think so given the fact that small, insular, wealthy communities (full disclosure - I live in one of them) get lifeguard...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

NYC Principals: Fear and Loathing Tweed

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I know someone who visits many schools all over the city and always checks the pulse of the principal to see what they think of BloomKlein. ...
Friday, May 2, 2008

NYCDOE Policy Reflects Bloomberg Discrimination

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The long reported stories of the intensive discrimination against pregnant women with women with young children resurfaced in a story in the...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The Broke Everything and Fixed Nothing...

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...This comment about the BloomKlein tenure over the NYC school system came from Lisa Donlan, parent activist from the lower east side in Ma...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

"Average Citizen" Jessica Tisch Calls For Bloomberg 3rd Term

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Today's Post includes an op-ed calling for voters to decide on term limits so Bloomberg can run again. The piece claims Bloomberg ha...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

An Ode to Bloomberg

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I entered Eduwonkette's Valentine Poetry Contest , using a poem (comment #3) by a Bloomberg Presidential shill as a framework. Graphic b...
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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Bloomberg Presidentital Bid Stillborn?

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The rise of McCain seems to have nailed the nascent Mayor Bloomberg independent presidential campaign to the wall according to Saturday'...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Giuliani Horrors Revisited in NY Times

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Today's front page of the NY Times is a must read to remind everyone of the mean-spirited "politics of retaliation" of the Gi...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

NYCDOE Appoints CEO of "Broad Prize Banners and Flags"

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EDNOTESNEWS (EDNN) Reports: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has appointed his old pal Smellington G. Worthington III, the founder of BFER (Billiona...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

8th Grade Holdover Policy Designed to Force Dropouts

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It is so simple. Want to enforce the illusion that graduation rates are rising so you can use that issue to run for the presidency? Start ho...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Bloomberg Presidential Campaign being Derailed by Obama?

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I am saddened at the story in today's NY Times, "Obama’s Surge Deflates Forum and Talk of a Bloomberg Run ." We will be missi...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Incompetently Yours from Bloomberg and Klein

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One thing people expected from entremanures like Bloomberg was some level of competence. People working in the schools have seen so litt...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

BloomKlein WIN!

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BloomKlein WINNNNNNNNN!!! Say the above using your best John Sterling "Yankees Win" voice! You can fool most of the people most of...
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Saturday, August 4, 2007

Tweed's Trojan Horse

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Bloomberg/Klein Intentions Revealed The Department of Education is pledging to help solve a charter school space crunch, pointing to an aggr...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

NYC Grad Rates Rising?

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Samuel Freedman's column in today's NY Times (posted here ) finally touches on the source of DOE claims for rising grad rates. Of...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Privatization & Mayoral Control

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Mayoral control of school systems is a symptom rather than a cause. What has occurred is privatization of policy over public schools, wher...
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Friday, July 13, 2007

Too Little, Too Late on Class Size...

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....UFT uses borough hearings as "Do Nows" to let out a little gas as a way to control militancy . While we all appreciate the elo...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

Taking a shot at Bloomberg's presidential balloon

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On the Bloomberg presidential balloon: < http://www.nytimes. com/2007/ 05/10/us/ politics/ 10mayor.html? ref=nyregion > Times descript...