The crowded field of 2013 mayoral contenders has made UFT chief Michael Mulgrew popular. (Times)
As state budget talks continue, Gov. Cuomo said he will negotiate on competitive school aid. (NY1)
Cuomo’s education budget plan would boost public payments to private schools by 13 percent. (WSJ)
A gym teacher at a Brooklyn high school was charged with groping a student. (Post, City Room, NY1)
Williamsburg Success wants to reserve one in five seats for English language learners. (Brooklyn Paper)
A former New Heights Academy official says the school’s founder engaged in financial misconduct. (Post)
A mediator will be assigned to city-union talks over teacher evaluations. (GothamSchools, WSJ, NY1)
State education officials named the first member of a team to take on cheating. (GothamSchools, WSJ)
The Regents are saving Believe Northside Charter School but will close Believe Southside. (NY1)
Peoria22
The only candidate teachers should support is Comptroller John Liu. Quinn is a schill of Bloomberg, DeBlasio supports mayoral control and school “deform”, and Stringer is a Manhattan-centric pro- charter school politician. I believe Liu will overcome his campaign finance scandal that the Daily News and New York Post is overplaying. The corporate media would love to see Quinn win. The billionaires Mortimer Zuckerman (Daily News) and Rupert Murdoch (New York Post) are in cahoots with Cuomo and and yes even Obama to implement a neoliberal policy of privatizing the public sector. The passage of a Tier 6 Pension will be the excuse to wipe out all Tier 4 teachers within the next few years.
bee
I agree. My ideal candidate will be firmly opposed to both mayoral control of NYC schools and to charter schools. I’m tired of politicians, “I’m not against charter schools, but…..”
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