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Remainders: Mulgrew critic says concessions real, blackmail not

  • Michael Mulgrew’s email to UFT members about the lawsuit denies all of the allegations. (NYCDOEnuts)
  • A frequent critic of Mulgrew’s leadership says he doubts blackmail was behind concessions. (Ed Notes)
  • Tonight is the deadline to vote for Erasmus Hall building to restore its stained glass windows. (PIP)
  • Twelve city high schools, some specialized and some not, make a national top-1,000 list. (Newsweek)
  • A design firm won an award for sketching New York City with schools atop each skyscraper. (Curbed)
  • Katie Campos, N.Y.’s 26-year-old deputy education secretary, makes a 40 under 40 list. (City & State)
  • A British schoolchild is documenting and critiquing her sparse daily school lunches. (Never Seconds)
  • Leo Casey bullets some of the contents of the Joel Klein charter school emails the UFT sought. (Edwize)
  • After her son’s SAT score was cancelled, Liz Willen criticizes the test-industrial complex. (Insideschools)
  • Ravitch takes the Klein-Condoleezza Rice education report to task for IDing the wrong issues. (NYRB)
  • A father mocks the city’s renaming of 24 schools with a letter to a student-turned-scholar. (Insideschools)
  • A teacher offers a suggestion for helping students create “concept cards” to take notes. (Coach G’s Tips)
  • A city teen explains and extols his choice at attend a lower-cost college to avoid debt. (Learning Network)
  • Staten Island Tech’s principal says he adds “the salt and pepper” to teachers’ gourmet meals. (DNA Info)
  • A satirical letter-to-a-teacher’s-file lambastes the Common Core’s non-fiction mandate. (NYC Educator)
  • Eight experts and pundits tackle the topic “Is integration back in U.S. public schools?” (Room for Debate)
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  • http://twitter.com/leoniehaimson leonie haimson

    I think I will start posting links to all the stories on our blog that GS leaves out:
    1.  First of all, we have all the FOILed emails that the UFT and media outlets have failed to post here: Crowd-sourcing the up-till-now secret DOE/charter lobby emails …

    See also:Change the Stakes demands full disclosure of testing program, including field testing in JuneComments on the applications of two more Success Academy charter schoolsComments on the applications of Citizens of the World charter schools

  • Invictus

    In order to shore up its credibility, GS must write an extensive article about those FOILED emails on all the people who participate in conflict of interest exchanged on taxpayer time!

  • RU4Real

    To be precise, only 2 NYC DOE High Schools that claim to be non-selective (Medgar Evers and Manhattan Village) are on the Newsweek list…and both of these are questionably selective.

  • Michael M. (parent still)

    And yet this very month, there’s a new proposed Chancellor’s Reg on….wait for it…. ETHICS.

    As I’ve been saying for years, irony is alive and well at Tweed.

  • Anonymous

    GS also missed the one year anniversary of the Grassroots Education Movement’s, “The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waitining for Superman”. Their film is now available on line at http://www.waitingforsupermantruth.org/

  • emanuel

    yes that is a major event, how could GS have missed that one

  • Mr. Flerporillo

    Thanks for posting the emails, interesting stuff.  

  • ASTRAKA

    “Children first!?
    …….Yeah Right.
    Thank you Leonie. I think GS is trying to make amends. They did not delete your post. But it’s too late again.

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