Moskowitz urged families to attend an all-hands-on-deck “Rally and March for Excellence” on Sept. 18. Classroom instruction will be canceled so students, staff and families can march across the Brooklyn Bridge. Moskowitz also asked parents to “contact their elected officials five times.” The email, which described powerful “anti-charter forces,” did not mention Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani by name. But Mamdani is the only major mayoral candidate running in November who has been critical of charters. -- Elizabeth Kim
Want to fight fascism? Organize a protest to this rally.
Bulletin: Adams says he's running - until a better offer comes along.
Thursday, Sept. 4 -
Happy Back to School (I don't mean that as I was never truly happy to end my 2 months of freedom for the regimentation of school - though I was happy to see (some of) my colleagues and (most of) the children.
When I see current and former educators attack Mamdani, I imagine they have forgotten the charter wars of a decade ago when Cuomo backed Eva and forced our school system to pay the rent for charter schools and other attacks on public schools and our union which responded with a campaign against Cuomo that backed him off.
In March 2014 I wrote:
The Wave - The Lies Eva Moskowitz Tells: More Destructive Than Global Warming
Eva has around 50 non-union schools. You may hate Mulgrew and Unity but they are better than no union at all. Despite the DOE chaos, many charter school teachers would prefer working in union backed schools.
Then there is the breaking and shocking news that Adams can be bought. I've been telling people who claim his ego won't let him drop out that he is just waiting for billionaires to come up with enough money to buy him off. I don't think Curtis Sliwa, who I actually like personally and even to some extent politically, will kill is credibility by dropping out.
Recent polls show Cuomo would win in a head to head with Mamdani, which I believe would happen -- some liberals in my own circle of contacts tell me they would back Cuomo -- the anti-Mamdani hysterical propaganda does penetrate. Last week I had to explain to family liberals that he is not taking over all the groceries in NYC - like in seizing the means of production - but setting up 5 groceries in food desert areas of each borough where there are no supermarkets.
As for childcare, he is offering a plan to extend the pre-k to pre-pre-k and beyond. I expect it can work fairly quickly by going for a gradual plan to include 2 year olds and using free space in public schools. Kicking charters out would help. How will he pay for it all? 2% tax on those making a million dollars a year. All those in that category, raise your hands. Seeing no one, I wonder at the hostility by those who don't make that much money over the poor plight of millionaires.
Someone asked me about Hochul not supporting any of his proposals and I pointed out that she is running for governor against a more liberal primary opponent and she will have to show some support on the affordability question in both the primary and general against that awful Trumpie Elise Stefanik who will get enormous national support. Hochul will not win - unless Mamdani mobilizes his people for her.
