Mayor Bloomberg accidentally stopped by a protest against school budget cuts. (NYC P.S. Parents)
Did he listen to parent activists? Leonie Haimson says no; his office says, “Yes, but.” (Daily Politics)
Some say Cathie Black is in Europe, but Norm Scott says he’s heard she’s in Brooklyn. (Ed Notes)
Stephen Lazar responds, with anger, to Ruben Brosbe’s EduSolidarity contribution. (Outside the Cave)
A teacher-activist: I support teachers unions, but not the leadership of the city’s. (GS Community)
A defense of New York City’s controversial technology investments. (Flypaper)
Breaking down the online learning contracts the city has entered into so far this year. (City Room)
A look at Williamsburg’s PS 84 four years after racial tensions flared there. (Capital NY)
An examination of the city’s bid to close non-failing schools with many high-needs students. (Edwize)
Applications to charter schools are due on Friday, the first legally allowed deadline. (Insideschools)
Michelle Rhee says she was “stupid” to argue against test-tampering investigations. (Class Struggle)
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She had better not be in Europe. The school year is on (w/ no vacation) and if a teacher did that she’d move to fire him/her. It’d be just another log to throw on the fire in terms of the second guilded-age rules and hypocrisies that she is coming to symbolize.
The more iZone spin I read – and unfortunately, the Flypaper piece contains no data supporting its grand contentions – the more I really do wonder whether the emperor has no clothes. As soon as the NYC DOE puts out a thick batch of papers giving the complete, detailed iZone description, its line item budget and the research supporting each of its sub-projects, we’ll see. ‘Till then all we taxpayers know is that … it costs a fortune and we’re losing the opportunity to build more schools and decrease devastating overcrowding to fund it.
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