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November 26, 2008
Hamptons.com snags an exclusive interview with Joel Klein
Leonie Haimson, the executive director of Class Size Matters, must have the “Joel Klein” Google alert routed permanently to her brain. Here’s a gem of an interview she found at Hamptons.com, in which Klein discloses that he’s about to purchase a new Sag Harbor home ($2 million) and that, with regards to the will-he-go-to-Washington question, he is “not big on commuting.”
A notable thing is that Hamptons.com put the story up at 1:55pm, and Haimson posted it on her e-mail list at 2:13pm, for which swiftness I considered giving her a gold medal and the nickname Leonie “Bolt” Haimson.
Alas, when I called to ask how she was able to find the article so fast, she told me it was really not a big deal. She had just been doing her usual, punching Joel Klein’s name into Google News, searching for articles on his trip to Australia, when up Hamptons.com popped. Just another average day in the average life of everybody’s favorite workaholic education organizer…
October 17, 2008
UFT’s budget cut wish-list: entire accountability office (almost)
Somehow this slipped between the cracks: The United Federation of Teachers is signing on to a letter urging the Department of Education to make dramatic cuts to at least five of Chancellor Joel Klein’s hallmark programs. Joining the signatories list — which also includes Time Out From Testing, the Working Families Party, and Class Size Matters — was the third thing the union decided to do Wednesday evening at its delegate assembly meeting, right after two higher-profile votes.
On the chopping board would be the annual letter-grade progress reports for schools; the quality reviews that supplement the test-driven progress reports with observed details; all standardized tests for children between kindergarten and second grade; the Leadership Academy, the nonprofit organization that trains principals; the periodic assessments that are supposed to help teachers prepare students for state tests; and ARIS, the data warehousing program contracted to IBM that has so far been a flop.
That’s not the entire Joel Klein agenda. But it’s a lot.
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