Headline a bit misleading; the standards for the charter that may be closed were laid out very clearly in last year’s one-year extension. The school didn’t meet them. End of story.
If every school had this level of scrutiny and expectation, we would have much less to complain about by way of the achievement gap.
Diana Senechal
I thought Susan Jacoby’s op-ed was excellent, and I was honored that she brought up my experiment, which appeared on GothamSchools. I like that she suggests “baby steps” toward solid improvement (as opposed to grand solutions that may be seriously flawed or intellectually empty). I especially like this: “First, even though a national curriculum cannot be imposed, serious public intellectuals of varying political views need to step up and develop voluntary guides, in every academic subject, for use by educators who do not disdain expert opinion.”
Frank Thomas, DOE spokesman just told me no arrests have been made tonight at PEP despite confrontation between protesters & police earlier. 31 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 36 mins ago
Shael: the suggestion that kids are moved around (to large, struggling high schools) just isn't accurate. 39 mins ago
@SchoolBook: Manhattan rep @PSulliv and mayoral appointee Lisette Nieves get into an argument she tells him to get off his "soapbox” 40 mins ago
Mayoral appointee Lisette nieves chimes in on an increasingly irate @PSulliv she says he's being rude. 41 mins ago
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