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It is always a surprise to folks that there are good schools besides 234 or 321 or any of the D 2/3/15 schools. I agree there are lousy schools and that they should be the focus of attention, but don’t forget there are good schools in other places in NYC.
Who knows, someday we’ll stop firing broadsides and work with some trust, tentative as it may be. I am beginning to feel that we are reflecting the stalemate that is Congress. -
Actually, Pissed Off, I think that the principal of my child’s school, who signed this letter, will hold to his word. I am sorry that you have untrustworthy admins, but don’t tar everyone with that brush. In my opinion, this letter is a small but important step in the fight against the Almighty Score. Action must start somewhere, no? What alternatives do you propose?
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why was my comment deleted?
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The school district here in Buffalo makes it a point to keep parents in the dark. Katie Campos did more than anyone here ever has to help inform and engage parents while she was running Buffalo ReformEd. It was a loss to Buffalo when she took the job with Cuomo, but she has remained accessible as well as very supportive of parents’ efforts to improve the schools.
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Just wondering GS, how about some investigative reporting, who is she related/connected to that she was in this position?
Truth be told, I’m not expecting a response. But, we all know she got this position through connections, certainly did nothing to earn it. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong by listing her prior qualifications.
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The Cuomo Commission on Education Reform published their Interim Report in December, hearings will be held starting next week, with a final Report due in September … David Wakelyn, the prior ed secty, has a deep resume with significant writings, you may or may not agree,but, thoughtful and deeply reserached policy papers in his position at the NGA … Campos is an embarrassment … enough said … DeShaun Wright, the current Ed Secty has been invisible … the governor’s ed policy, aside from APPR and the 2% property tax cap has been benign neglect …
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The Cuomo Commission on Education Reform published their Interim Report in December, hearings will be held starting next week, with a final Report due in September … David Wakelyn has a deep resume with significant writings, you may or may not agree, thoughtful and deeply reserached policy papers in his position at the NGA … Campos is an embarrassment … enough said … DeShaun Wright, the current Ed Secty has been invisible … the governor’s ed policy, aside from APPR and the 2% property tax cap has been benign neglect …
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27 and 0 days in the classroom…yes most experienced indeed…
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Shes very very good, she is very accessible to parents, teachers, students. She is bright and strategic and thoughtful. Why does everyone want to bag on her?
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elephants in the rooms!
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Yes, it’s the latest installment of the Cuomo Traveling Circus.
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In the Old West she would be known as a “hired gun”.
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Anyone know more about this New (again) New York Education Committee?
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Do the retired teachers in the suburbs and Florida get to vote on the endorsements? They have so many choices!
1) Thompson, who as Comptroller said nothing when Bloomberg said the 25/55 deal would cost nothing, and decided that the key to maintaining the fiction that investment returns would pay for the 2000 deal was to pay more money to Wall Street by shifting to hedge funds.
2) Liu, who endorsed retroactive pension increases for those cashing in and moving out, and held that the pension increases were not problem because you can always cut services, while publishing misleading reports on pensions that contradict each other and maintaining Thompson’s pay Wall Street more policy.
3) Lhota, who was budget director when Giuliani cut the deal to slash the city’s pension contributions a few years so he would have money to throw around during Giuliani for Senate, in exchange for a 75 percent career reduction in employee contributions forever (3 percent eliminated after 10 years).
Anybody else. Does the City Council at least get to vote on labor contracts that permanently obligate city residents, contracts that are generally negotiated in secret? If so, I guess Quinn could be tagged with a piece of the 25/55 deal and related consequences for students/younger teachers/other services too.
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I find this hard to believe. In this data driven, statistics conscious society, test scores matter. The AP that insists every teacher should have 100% passing will still be choosing students based on scores. What these principals say and what they will do are not the same thing.
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Most “experienced” aide was 27 years old. Did you laugh as you wrote that?
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King hasn’t received the letter that was sent over a week ago? Or he just doesn’t feel like responding?
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The DOE has around 130 lawyers. My understanding is that they mainly handle things like 3020-A hearings, advising principals about disciplinary rules and processes, etc. As of a couple years ago, their combined salary was around $11 million. The litigation work is done by the Law Department, and there’s a specific division of the Law Department focused on appeals.
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[...] What happens to those students? They fall in between the cracks, dropping out or winding up back at the dwindling community public school whose funding has been gutted by “fair student funding”-which translates as an increased voucher system in which children and monies attached to their foreheads have are siphoned off by charter schools. The Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University found in a 2009 report that only 17% of charter schools outperformed their public school equivalents, while 37% of charter schools performed worse than regular local schools, and the rest were about the same. Never the less, charter school operators and investors reap enormous profits and six figure salaries. [...]
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yes, in that whoever the DA endorses the uft leadership must endorse. However, we all know the DA does whatever the leadership says, so really it will be Mulgrew and his cronies who decide.
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“Officials have set aside about $100 million to help prepare teachers for more difficult Common Core standards that were introduced on new state math and reading exams this spring.”
Mulgrew to stop screaming that the city is not providing teachers with adequate support services and start screaming that the city is wasting money on useless and corrupt consulting contracts that could be used to increase pay and pensions in 3,2,1…
Hopefully this is just a one year deal. Because of the success of the UFT in the past, let alone the future, the city cannot afford it. Not when it is underfunding the pensions by $1 bllion (the city actuary) to $3 billion (my view) per year. -
Good for her! Ms. Sanchez is my hero. I am going to take this to others as an example of what shared intent and trust can do to change the system
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Is the Delegate Assembly vote for who to endorse binding?
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Also, lets get all of these “non profit” organizations and “consultants” OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!!!! Why am I hearing from so many educators that they cannot stand seeing all these non profits and consultants roaming the halls wasting tax payer money.
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spending all this money on tweed lawyers and ting….omg get out of town bloomberg and all his tweens spending all the taxpayers money on tweed lawyers appealing every decision they lose and they are losing alot
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