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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Does Gotham Schools Have an Agenda?- UPDATE

UPDATED Elizabeth Green says " we really do not have 'an agenda,' besides good journalism." NYC Educator and JD2718 thi...

Saturday, April 11, 2009

the City Council Cue Card Fiasco: Mulgrew was in charge

.... bet some lower species will get the blame as the Pres cannot publicly lambaste her hand picked successor. -- an anonymous comment. Not...

Will the Real Jackass Rise? Charles Barron, Whitney Tilson, or Ben Chavis?

It's a tie between Whitney Tilson and Ben Chavis (not the same Ben Chavis who headed the NAACP. We've dealt with Tilson, who fancie...

Friday, April 10, 2009

Barron, Klein, Spellings, Sharpton Confrontation: New Video by Angel Gonzalez

UPDATED Video Modified: Apr. 18 In a brilliant new video, Angel Gonzalez of ICE and the Grassroots Education Movement exposes the hypocrisy...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Charter Schools: The Solution to the Crisis in Public Education?

All public schools in NYC are going to come up against this issue if they haven't already. This conference on May 4 is an outgrowth of t...

Seder Sidekicks

Thanks to David for this follow-up to Tisch, Tisch, Meryl as Meryl, Joel et al. celebrate the holidays. http://dbellel.blogspot.com/2009/...

Public Schools, Private Money

Mary Porter has left a new comment on your post: The Broad Prize for Losers : Here's a note I sent to a member of congress who sits on ...

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Nolan and Odonnell Toss the Ball in Klein's Court

Following the machinations of Joel Klein and the NYCDOE last week turned out to be more fun than a dull Final Four end to March Madness. Kle...

Good for UFT Cue Cards

I have not followed the details but from what I've heard the questions were very pertinent ones to be asked of the doe officials who hav...

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Tisch, Tisch, Meryl

We get letters from people running schools too. Some of my sources tell me that almost every principal they meet despises Tweed and Joel Kle...

Monday, April 6, 2009

The Politics of Venture Philanthropy in Charter School Policy

Call it vulture philanthropy From Sharon Higgins Here’s a scholarly and informative article to share with you: "The Politics of V...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

America in Labor and Parsing Randi

In today's Week in Review in the NY Times, Stephen Greenhouse wonders why American Labor Has An Unusually Long Fuse compared to Europea...

All that’s missing is a few hookers

Aaron Pallas fact checks the Klein/Sharpton Education Equality Project over at Gotham Schools. Leonie Haimson talks about that was the week...

Saturday, April 4, 2009

The Broad Prize for Losers

Though we totally reject the entire Broad prize concept as a political tool to undermine public education, isn't it interesting that Arn...

How NYCDOE Eats Its Young Teachers

They Call Me Teacher could be a model for many of the young idealistic teachers flooding into the system, the heroic teachers who are expec...

Has Your Favorite Unity Caucus Hack Gone Missing?

Why they're all up in Buffalo at the annual NY State United Teachers Convention. All 800 of them - at your expense. (They were elected i...

Friday, April 3, 2009

Klein Letter to PS 150 Brownsville Parents

Follow-up to our previous post of Klein's letter to PS 241's Harlem parents, which should be read in full with the Ed Notes' dec...

Your Union Dues at Work: $10,000 a Year to Sharpton

“Nobody is supporting us more financially than Randi Weingarten,” Mr. Sharpton said. Ms. Weingarten said that the union had given about $10,...

Tweed Undermines Law Suit "Win" on Zoned Schools

The epicenter of the battle over public and charter schools is Harlem, where public schools, long denied resources have been forced into unf...

Tracking the Charter School Debates

Everywhere we go, the debate turns to charter schools and teachers and parents are starting to feel the impact in many parts of the city. Co...

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