A respected consortium of high schools exempted from testing wants to expand its portfolio. (WSJ)
A new CUNY community college with a focus on creative remediation opened yesterday. (Post, NY1)
A court put an end to Alabama’s controversial practice of checking for citizenship at schools. (AP)
College enrollment for young Hispanic adults has soared; numbers stood pat for blacks. (Times)
A dispute with a city agency has led to frozen pay for more than 150 day care workers. (Daily News)
Hoping to avoid co-location on one island, a charter school looks to another one. (GothamSchools)
Poll: More New Yorkers like Bloomberg than dislike him, but no one wants him to run again. (Times)
Clay
Sloppy Decker, wrong link on the Times poll. Again, I would point out that Bloomberg would deny you tenure for this. Do you think that’s fair?
Mr. Flerporillo
These points would have more impact if tenure was actually a theoretical possibility for GS reporters. Maybe say “would fire you” in the future.
Clay
Come on Flerp, haven’t you been reading long enough to know that being denied tenure doesn’t necessarily mean one is being fired? Probation can also be extended (see the Ruben Brosbe saga). You disappoint me.
Ken Hirsh
Excellent point, although I’ve heard that Bloomberg routinely denies tenure to random passersby. His lawyers have given him the go-ahead.
Mr. Flerporillo
Ken — isn’t he required to give notice or something? Because I don’t have tenure, and I’m wondering if Bloomberg may have denied it without telling me.
Ken Hirsh
Flerp, Bloomberg’s powers are unlimited. He’s even gone and eliminated LIFO at your firm.
Pogue
What are you guys, the Laurel of Hardy of education commentators?
Clay
No worries Pogue, Ken and Flerp are just jesting from their ivory towers.
I noticed that…
President of the new CUNY community college said “…make it clear that there are expectations that this is what you do. You do go to class, you do get your work done, because that’s what you need to be successful,” and didn’t NYC teachers say the same thing to students in HS. However, we had to assign online credit recovery classes so they can graduate and be “successful”. I would like for the GS to keep track of the college’s dropout rate or how many college students are assigned online courses. Remember that Mayor4Life said that this new CUNY college is the “model” for other community colleges. The negative operative word here is “model”. Watch out.
Anonymous
The story is 65% disapprove of Bloomo buying a 3rd term in hindsight.
4th term? Moot and silly question.
Get Real:
Who thinks Mike is truly awful?
Who approves based mainly on how their bank accounts, investments and fab restaurants look?
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