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When Bloomberg paid for ads to bolster his image, they had no effect whatsoever. So it’s interesting he’d suggest he could reach into his pockets, do it again, and achieve a different effect. Reminiscent of his approach to educational policy.
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Flerpolopoulos, we can spread the debate out as far as you want to go. When we talk about education and budgets and the futures of our students, we can also include the jobs waiting/not waiting for them when they finish their academic careers.
Thus, are you okay with myriad American companies outsourcing jobs to foreign countries to cut and bypass fair wages for American workers to lower their budgets and maximize profits?
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The variable of the student does not seem to be discussed in this piece, nor more importantly in state law or contractual agreements. Can teachers working with different students and different groups of students be evaluated as if they are all working with the same thing, here students? Text books may read the same, and written tests may be written and graded the same, and even if two people, here teachers, could be the same, the end result would be different as the individuals in the classes are different from each other by biology, aptitude, rearing, and home and value system. This is so within a school, between school years, and even more dramatically so across neighborhoods, communities and societies.
In short, and in fact, there are far too many variables in and between students and student populations to make it possible to fairly or accurately evaluate teachers based upon student tests scores. It is, and always will be, an occupation, profession, vocation whose effect on lives and the society from which those lives come cannot be addressed numerically nor with a checklist. Only time and individuals can speak with authority on the quality of the teachers in their lives.
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Well, if we’re limiting it to the profit-mongering ones (I see you’ve enrolled in Fiorillo’s course in gratuitous compound adjective usage), I feel not great about it. On the other hand, I feel even worse about educated westerners surfing the web and complaining about the injustice of their lives while hundreds of millions of other people spend their lives dying of malnutrition and/or getting systematically murdered. I suppose that’s not much of a policy statement, but it’s about as far as we can go unless you put more effort into this than posing a fatuous question.
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Of course! Mayor 13% is also Mayor 0% accountability.
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I think we should lock him in a room with Eva. Let Eva and Mike experience co-location firsthand.
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Good luck to the Cobble Hill parents! It’s time for the good side to win. Let’s keep our public schools public!
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I heard it was over a half million dollars a year…
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The real truth is that the Wadleigh kids would have to be sent to neighboring schools – which just happen to be predominately caucasian. That ‘s the real reason for the sudden reversal not the MM club of Aged Harlem politicians pressure …or lack there of. If the so called politicians were so mighty, why didn’t they save the legendary Rice high school.
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Not only is the Mayor4life is delusional, but he’s demented, too. With so much money you would think that he would pay a high-priced shrink to get the crazies out of his head.
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I think he is referring to that ad that came out 2 weeks ago. The best ad ever…paid with UFT union dues. Most likely thought out and executed with people who rub elbows with him in his cocktail parties. Life is full of ironic moments.
The King needs to get it clear… there would not be an ad if his policies were different. The ad simply underlines what he has done.
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“At the same time, real autonomy has been critical to the success of the
city’s public charter schools, and we would not want to erode that
independence and inadvertently give those pushing an anti-charter agenda
the power to throw up more roadblocks.”
Nice, so the local CECs will automatically throw up road blocks. I guess he’s expressing the real attidude of the DOE in that statement
And, if the Charter schools are LEAs, why don’t the Charter school parents create their own school boards? Or, are the hedge funders reluctant to allow the parents of needy/at-risk children make real decisions? Or, is Eva afraid that the school board might not agree to her salary structures or question teacher burn out -
Oh wow. I can’t believe what I just read.
The mayor blamed attack ads -that ended 11 months ago- on his poor poll numbers today. He isn’t blaming his approach of ignoring stakeholders, isn’t blaming his policies, isn’t blaming his rhetoric of attacking teachers and the union. None of that is to blame. It’s attack ads -that ended 11 months ago.Holy cow, I think I see a pattern here: The mayor thinks that everything is the UFT’s fault.
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My dues finally doing something good.
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Yeah, we need ads because that clown is on tv with his stupid smug smile every five minutes.
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OMG, Bloomberg is delusional. He needs help. I suggest an intervention.
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Jenny Sedlis has blathered on for years about Success’ big waitlist and their overwhelming volume of applications, but it is bogus. Upper West Success couldn’t even fill itself up. Families just apply to everything they can, even things they would only choose as a last resort, and then when they get into their zoned school or a G&T or magnet school, they go. The numbers Success uses are false indicators of demand. More Sedlis hot air.
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Sorry, Flerpi, but if the topic is going to stay on budgets, many issues affect the budgets of public schooling and its support and resources.
Thus, how do you feel about profit-mongering oil companies being provided government subsidies while schools are being asked to cut budgets?
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@b6ab6ff232d7176dc4b9479dcbf4b1ce:disqus Totally agree. Science labs, with exciting inquiry based learning projects taking place, would certainly be part of a vibrant school community
@3f32d18d92f51635239edf32e4bedb73:disqus Interesting connection, I’m not too familiar with the small school/theme movement, but I agree with you that the narrowing of curriculum due to testing–and subsequent inattention to the arts, history, and sciences–has been devastating to schools, and it has been especially devastating to already disadvantaged children. It’s like depriving already malnourished plots of land of supplemental nutrients and then demanding that the farmers increase their yields.
Everyone, Will and I are keeping this discussion of the model of schools as ecosystems ongoing with daily posts over at schoolecosystems.blogspot.com. Come over and check it out!
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in a small conversation between the King and his Jester, it is heard the king saying, “Sure, give them ungrateful peasants 2 and we will take 30 or more! They are so stupid and they will not know what to make of it…they are peasants that they will surely be happy having scraps from my table!”
This is just 2 small buildings out of close to 200 that the Education Mayor has shuttered and destroyed.
There is a generation of children who have been raised under his changes and to achieve what one may ask…. higher rates of remediation then ever while attending community college or any city university…higher drop out rates, de facto resegregation of schools in one of the most diverse cities in the United States….
It will take decades to undo what he has done to the school system. Larger budgets than ever, more little technological toys than ever… yet the educational impact has placed NYC Schools almost last of all major cities in the United States in terms of measurable and significant gains.
Dear King, thanks for nothing.
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They get to determine the zones for the District. In some Districts that has a big impact.
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How can the DoE say they can’t afford new space (which their reps did say at a district 2 CEC meeting) and then turn around and give space to charters. I’m sure a lot of those applications to Success are from parents worried they won’t get a spot in their zoned school. District 15 (and District 2 where Eva has her sights set on building 2 schools) are bursting with great schools. We need more of those, not sucking money, resources and space into charter schools where they are not wanted.
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Why don’t they sue based on Moskowitz outrageous salary. If Charters are publicly funded and Cuomo wants salary caps at $199,000 why is she allowed to pull down over $450,000 plus bonuses etc etc? Can anybody even determine her total compensation?
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While I’m pleased these two schools are off the chopping block, there are still so many more schools that will begin the process of phase-out effective tomorrow.
A phasing out school is a dying school, which is no place for our youth and a place many of our finest teachers run from. This is putting “children first.” -
Finally, some good news on Gotham Schools!
Feb. 10: You’re invited!
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