Remainders: Word of the week is “mismanagement”

by Anna Phillips, at 7:35 pm

Norm says the growing number of young teachers fighting school closure is a sign of things to come.
The UFT’s internal newspaper renames Tweed “Mismanagement Central.”
Mismanagement may describe the city’s policies, writes one blogger, but it’s a lousy chant.
WNYC’s Beth Fertig takes the ACT and discovers she’s not ready for college algebra.
The U.S. DOE released FAQs about Race to the Top today, including a bunch of deadlines.
It’s likely that Florida’s teachers union won’t sign off on the state’s RttT application.
“We want to be good neighbors [now], then get the hell out,” said a PAVE charter school official.
One of New York State’s oldest charter schools is on the brink of losing its charter.
Philly is making little progress in preventing immigrant students from getting beaten up.
NY isn’t the only state that could see its RttT chances killed by its state legislature’s dysfunction.
Welcome to bizarro Tweed, where Klein is bent on phasing out New Jersey.
An Arizona choir teacher was put on administrative leave after taking students to Hooters for lunch.
And button up, for real.

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Mismanagement is overly generous. A more accurate label is sabotage.
I noticed that…

Mismanagement is being used to motivate others, the public, to look at the DoE’s ineptitude. Sabotage is Klein’s dastardly plan of setting up schools for failure. Finally, conspiracy is what the DoE, the chancellor and the mayor are doing to the public schools in order to destroy it.

He's been frozen in that stoic position all night MT @lisafleisher: A protester speaks with his middle finger. http://t.co/xLar4NRU 8 mins ago
Last of the occupy protesters just walked out together, shouting expletives and insults on their way out. #toughcrowd 12 mins ago
Frank Thomas, DOE spokesman just told me no arrests have been made tonight at PEP despite confrontation between protesters & police earlier. 48 mins ago
RT @leoniehaimson: It's been shown repeatedly that as one schl closes another overwhelmed w/ high needs kids that small schls won't take 53 mins ago
Shael: the suggestion that kids are moved around (to large, struggling high schools) just isn't accurate. 56 mins ago
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