Klein has more power now than if the Senate had passed the Assembly’s mayoral control bill. (Post)
The Bronx board member explains her abstentions at the meeting. (Daily News)
The Senate Dem who held up the vote is in the middle of suing the DOE over a fired administrator. (Post)
The Post calls Sampson’s possible conflict of interest in the mayoral control fight “disgusting.”
The Post also says the mayor needs to exact revenge against Albany lawmakers.
“Have they no conscience?” the Daily News asks about state legislators from New York City.
Summer school started without issues, but some parents said they were annoyed. (Daily News, Post)
Cash-strapped states have cut their summer school programs. (Times)
Green Dot is in talks to open charter schools in D.C. (Washington Post)
Pogue
Borough presidents Molinaro, Stringer, Marshall, and Markowitz…now, to be known as “The Jellyfish Four”. Representing one, (Bloomberg), constituent at a time.
Michael M.
The NY (com)Post — a branch of the Bloomberg/Klein PR consortium LLP — is unbelievable.
While PRETENDING that the sunset of the Mayoral Control law leaves no legal framework in place (as utterly disproven yesterday), their idea of political hardball the day AFTER such chaos-rattling came to naught is to… SHOOT THE HOSTAGES, namely “poor kids,” underperforming kids,” and those who will feed and teach them.
To whit:
“* No school-based breakfast and lunch programs for poor kids.
* No summer-school classes for underperforming students hoping to catch up.
* And, most important, no summer-premium pay for unionized school-system employees looking to bolster their already substantial 10-month salaries.”
FOR SHAME.
Michael M.
Re Item 1, NYTimes coverage of Bored of Ed, comment section:
“I must respond to #30 Duck Soup:
I would agree, if the only test in life that these kids will ever face is…. 3rd Grade Math. Per prior news coverage, they’re not being taught test-taking tactics; they’re being taught LAST YEAR’S TEST! Sheesh.
And still the 8th Grade ELA scores only came up 2.2% over FOUR years?
Per NYSED, not NYCDOE — or BlombergForEmperor09 mailing — data. Feel free to double-check my math:
http (colon) //gothamschools (dot) org/2009/06/30/remainders-in-the-rest-of-the-world-education-policy-goes-on/comment-page-1/#comment-144304
Hurray for Captain Spaulding, etc.”
inexile
Make the Fab Jellyfish Four pay in November and let’s not forget to throw out Generalissimo Bloomberg as well. These guys I believe underestimate the amount of anger out here in the general public. If I were Christine Quinn, I would start looking for a new job too. I believe that extending term limits against the public will added fuel to the public fire against mayoral control.
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