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Farrakhan may also have some important views on the matter. No serious paper can ignore them

Oops. That got mangled. Meant to say that it’s a bit ridiculous to compare me to anti-Semite Charles Barron. I’m looking fwd to Hakeem beating him next week. Barron’s hated will not and can not be tolerated. -Gideon

 And Hakeem, by pandering to charter schools, is hateful to public schools. Many of us won’t be voting for charter enablers. We’re sick of the destruction and exploitation of our neighborhood and magnet public schools.

 And Hakeem, by pandering to charter schools, is hateful to public schools. Many of us won’t be voting for charter enablers. We’re sick of the destruction and exploitation of neighborhood and magnet public schools.

P.S. Gotham Schools, this is the third time I’ve posted this comment because the prior ones “vanished.” Why?

I wish I knew. I think Condon wanted to queer OSI more than exonerate the drop dead guilty Cobble Hill gang. The best way to do that was to smear OSI’s probe that dared to treat Region 8 Superintendent Marcia Lyles and new Deputy Chancellor of Instruction Carmen Farina as suspects in the cover-up. Another mystery is why Klein kissed Condon’s corrupt report and wiped out OSI’s top management as punishment for backing my oh so true and substantiated allegations. Thanks for asking

It sounds like a spy novel.  I can’t say if it’s true or not, but your words feature an omniscient third person narrator with a lot of insight into the thoughts of individuals.

This article was about Leo but yet Nobile brings up his crap once again. Get some medication please. you are making a clear case why you should brought on some charges. Godspeed Leo- hopefully you encounter less nutbags ( that you tried to do the right thing for but obviously couldn’t keep themselves out of trouble) in DC.

As a valedictory, here is Leo’s end zone dance celebrating the recreation of the educational devastation of the 1970s by securing 25/55 after decades of focusing primarily on that, while pretending to care about the actual quality of the schools.  (Some of that is me reading between the lines).

http://www.edwize.org/the-lessons-of-55-25

“In the late 1970s, at the height of New York City fiscal crisis and before many of today’s teachers were born, the law governing the pensions of New York City public school educators was changed for the worse.”

So what caused the fiscal crisis?  Debts yes.  And problems in the economy.  But also something else.  What was it?

“For the better part of three decades, the UFT fought to bring equity to the different pension tiers and to restore the Tier 1 pension benefits — especially 55-25 — to all New York City public school educators. On two previous occasions, we were successful in passing legislation through the NY State Assembly and State Senate, only to face a gubernatorial veto. Each time we suffered a setback, we renewed the battle. Now, at a moment when few would have predicted it and against the larger trends in American society, we have been successful.”

The fact that other workers are losing retirement benefit, reducing the cost of goods and services an increasing the relative standard of living of retired teachers, makes it all the sweeter.

“Our success shows the importance of the savvy use of collective bargaining, starting with the inclusion of 55-25 in the 2005 contract and concluding with a contract implementation agreement last fall which made the implementation of school-wide bonuses contingent upon the passage of 55-25 legislation.”

That is, the best time to become better off at other people’s expense through a retroactive pension enhancement is when some New York politco (Lindsay, Pataki, Giuliani, Bloomberg) wants to run for President.  The state legislature never cares about public services, since they are owned by producers.

“Together, all of these levers of power, painstakingly built through union solidarity, brought victory.”

So who lost?  And where was the solidarity with future members?  I guess we are finding out.  AGAIN!  Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.  Believe that more funding will provide decent schools a third time?  In the meantime, shame on me.

It is counterintuitive that Condon’s team of attorneys, detectives, and interns under the supervision of Special Counsel Eileen Daly would dish out a brazenly fraudulent report that covered up the original Cobble Hill crimes, acquitted sure as shooting wrongdoers, bleached Superintendent Lyles’s obstruction of justice, ignored the suspect amnesia of Deputy Chancellor Farina, harshly censured the OSI team of Director Theresa Europe, Deputy Tom Hyland, and Investigator Lou Scarcella, and painted me as a false accuser without or recommending reprimand of any kind. Why would an agency set up to root out corruption in city schools corrupt itself via a rigged review that shockingly skipped the basic step of auditing the disputed exams and interviewing George? SCI’s motive eludes me, the rest is speculation.

You miss the point of my comment, Gideon Stein.

What the heck do you know about the internal workings of the UFT that you should be quoted in this article saying “Leo is their leading intellectual and probably best writer”?

Simply silly.

The fact that Leo went against Diane Ravitch speaks volumes about his “intellectualism.