At the sole school to get an F, down from a B last year, students say motivation is an issue. (Post)
The DOE is looking for a contractor to protect the schools from bedbugs. (Post)
Mayor Bloomberg asked the DOE to cut 1.5 percent from its budget, less than other agencies. (Post)
NYS wants to evaluate teacher training programs by their products’ student test scores. (GothamSchools)
The Daily News endorses the state’s plan, saying it would improve teacher quality control.
Four Bronx teachers who won math and science teaching awards had parties in their honor. (Daily News)
The state’s budget crisis could delay payments to school districts. (Bloomberg News)
Children will play a big role in getting the 2010 census completed. (Wall Street Journal)
The Wall Street Journal is stunned the Ford Foundation is giving to teachers unions, not charter schools.
Los Angeles teachers are among the groups bidding to take over the city’s troubled schools. (L.A. Times)
Food that the FDA deems dangerous often stays in the lineup for school lunches. (USA Today)
A federal judge ruled Chicago students should get to transfer from an unsafe school. (Chicago Tribune)
reality-based educator
A report issued by the government TARP watchdog found that President Accountability’s Treasury Secretary, Timmeh Geithner, was responsible for overpayments of billions of dollars in taxpayer money to financial firms in the government bailout.
According to Huffingtonpost:
“The authoritative new narrative describes how, while bailing out insurance giant AIG last fall, a team led by Geithner failed nearly every step of the way.
Instead of bargaining with AIG’s numerous counterparties to resolve its billions of dollars in souring derivatives contracts, Geithner’s team ended up paying top dollar for toxic assets — ‘an amount far above their market value at the time,’ the report notes.”
Much of that money went to AIG’s biggest counterparty, Goldman Sachs, though JP Morgan and others received Treasury Timmeh’s largesse as well.
So through either incompetence or corruption, Treasury Timmeh, then head of the NY Fed, cost taxpayers billions of dollars and yet President Accountability decided he had done such a good job with the bailout that he promoted him to run the Treasury Department.
Now that’s accountability we can believe in!
Good thing Treaury Timmeh isn’t a teacher – the Daily News, Post and Times editorial boards would be running scathing editorials about the need to fire him.
Instead the News is running a story about the need to grade and fire bad teachers.
Fair enough, Mort – how about grading and firing bad Treasury Secretaries while we’re at it?
(Or did Mort get some of Treasury Timmeh’s largesse as well?)
Marty
A funny/sad part of the Times article was the part about Bread and Roses High School getting rid of a new teacher for failing too many kids and bringing down their report card grade. You can imagine the poor rookie, coming out of ed school with the idea that we’re obligated to set high standards for our kids and probably figuring that you’re actually supposed to uphold the “contract” you give to students that breaks down how their grades are calculated. Meanwhile, you have the kids who probably haven’t broken a sweat since the day these silly report cards were invented, not understanding why this one teacher doesn’t pass them even though they showed up for class the entire last week of the final marking period.
The Times reporters sided with the principal, presenting his libelous remarks about the teacher as settled fact. No attempt to tell the teacher’s side of the story.
“I wonder whether school are more or less integrated along socioeconomic lines than they are along racial lines. I could imagine the title of that article being "why don't we have any rich kids?"
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