Remainders: City Parent Academy to start Saturday as planned

by Philissa Cramer, at 7:20 pm

The city’s Parent Academy is launching on Saturday, now with Sandy-related sessions. (Insideschools)
Staten Island’s New Dorp High School and I.S. 2 are now sharing space with high spirits. (SchoolBook)
The winners of a federal innovation contest now have a month to secure matching funds. (Politics K-12)
Federal jobs data shows that teachers hold second jobs more than others. (Inside School Research)
An urban educator makes the case against the ubiquitous term “achievement gap.” (GOOD/Notebook)
The end of a series on upping your progress report score precedes the high school reports. (Datacation)
A teacher describes how the impulse to help Sandy victims is taking effect at his own school. (Mr Foteah)
A city teacher says gas rationing is going to stop him from getting to school Friday. (NYCDOEnuts Twitter)

Larry Littlefield

If the city had taken my advice back in 1995, it would already have a dynamic carpool system that started with its own employees. In fact, only those willing to bring a couple of people with them each way would be given parking placards. The unions could have even owned part of the company.

I had assumed that an initial critical mass, such as tens of thousands of city employees, would be needed to make such a system work. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough possible rides to cover all the possible origins/destinations/times.

But out in California, a private company seems to be trying from the bottom up. Hey DOENuts, try this.

http://www.zimride.com/

In the meantime, thank goodness for my bicycle. The only day of work I missed was Monday at the height of the storm.
Nycdoenuts

Thanks, Larry. Do you have 5 gallons of gas I can borrow?
common sense

now that gas from last fri and election takes on new importance-and Bloomberg knew the shortage was real
Larry Littlefield

I don’t even have a car. (Well I am paying for one, but it’s upstate with my kids. Hopefully this mess is over before they try to come back for Thanksgiving).

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