Comments on: Charles Barron: Chancellor Klein is illegally occupying Tweed

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:16:22 +0000

Again, mayoral control is not really the issue or the solution here, the solution is giving ALL parents CHOICE in the schools their children attend. Don’t let educrats decide, don’t let citycouncil members decide, and certainly don’t let zip-codes decide…LET PARENTS DECIDE. So simple, so powerful, so clearly a good idea that this entire debate misses. Who cares how many people are on hte PEP/BOE/DOE/CEC/CSD…Blah blah blah. What should matter is whether parents, including poor parents in tough neighborhoods, can say…I like PS6, I want my child there. I like KIPP, I want my child there. I like Brandeis I want my child there. By doing so, bad schools would close, good ones would be over subscribed and force new space to be assigned to them. Give the parents the choice they deserve!

By: alim

alim — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:28:11 +0000

peter
i just ordered that book online after reading your post…needed some summer reading

By: canwetalk

canwetalk — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:59:51 +0000

I have the greatest respect for councilman Robert Jackson. He has been the strongest fighter, most outspoken advocate for education. His persistent oversight on educational issues in NYC and for not sitting on his laurels after finally winning the CFE lawsuit must be commended. If he is there with councilman Charles Barron, most likely it is because another education law must have been violated by this last-minute, quasi-BoE. We must allow our councilmen to investigate why the setting up this BoE committee was permitted, why Chancellor Klein was rehired, especially since there might be a conflict of interest when three of the BoE members are beholden to the mayor, and why the BoE members are still NOT listening to the people of NYC? Is Bloomberg’s billions and his megalomania having some very subtle affects to the powers that are being allowed to be? For many, many years Albany denied the children of NYC equal fiscal funding. The people of NYC won the lawsuit and fiscal equity is the name of the money game for our children. Unfortunately, now for over 7 years the mayor, the chancellor, the ill-prepared, psuedo-Tweed educrats are ignoring and avoiding the same people who fought to bring billions to the children of NYC. I have always supported Councilman Jackson’s in all his effort with respect to education, policies, and fundings andd I will continue to support Robert Jackson, Charles Barron, and the people of NYC who only want the best for the children by fighting hard and showing those educrats that they will be exposed for their chicaneries, guiles and selfish, hidden agenda. Education is about the children; it was not meant for a billionaire to push his political career ahead of the children.

By: peter

peter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:10:46 +0000

Take a look at Clarence Taylor, “Knocking At Our Own Door, Milton Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City School, (2001) … strikingly deja vu again …

By: Dissenter

Dissenter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:58:02 +0000

Charles Barron is a big windbag. Just by closing his mouth we could solve global warming.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:39:05 +0000

Charles Barron is a council member, not an assemblyman

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:31:52 +0000

Serious question as to the Chancellor’s powers:
Are they not now GREATER than pre-June 30?

To whit: On July 1, the Bored (sic) of Ed voted to officially imbue Chancellor Klein with all of the contracting power he had given to himself.
Had the PEP ever done that?
Did the now-sunset Mayoral Control Law?
Are these powers not greater — at least during this interim period — than even the Assembly’s Silver bill?

Re BoE voting to endorse further potted plantedness. Again, irony — and mockery of the law — alive and well at Tweed…

P.S. Note to KS: 100 > 6. Amazing what a last-minute flyer can do. Cheers.