tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post6378289015701517926..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: NYCDOE Getting Rid Of Joel Klein's $95 Million Dollar Computer System Boondogglereality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-70905272830988892442014-11-17T13:16:40.113-05:002014-11-17T13:16:40.113-05:00Joel Klein has a column in USA today calling for a...Joel Klein has a column in USA today calling for an end to teacher tenure to make teaching more professional (sic).<br />http://goo.gl/UeRku1Ken Derstinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02645967327068634236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-59824419496431656132014-11-16T16:23:18.380-05:002014-11-16T16:23:18.380-05:00Don't forget the Daedalus system either...afte...Don't forget the Daedalus system either...after stealing money from the public education system for all of these diversions, the education reformers have finally gotten around to going after everything that is public education (to the tune of $700 billion annually)...The 21st century Grand Theft of American Democracy...Bloomberg and Klein are both guilty of negligence and/or fraud...When they were both in office, they should have come to the trailers and seen the dilapidated conditions that they both were responsible for. It would have been my pleasure to take a photo of each one of them in front of the neglected trailers that hold the forgotten children of New York, as each one of them could only think of new ways to steal from our citizens. Furthermore, any one of the students would have been well qualified to give Bloomberg and Klein a civics lesson on what it means to be a caring and responsible human being.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-37153749419765883502014-11-16T14:10:15.453-05:002014-11-16T14:10:15.453-05:00K12 Inc. having tough time these days too.
MOOC&#...K12 Inc. having tough time these days too.<br /><br />MOOC's not going so well either.<br /><br />The technocrats tried to sell the public on this stuff.<br /><br />But after a few years, it becomes pretty clear the "promise" the technocrats hawked has not been realized.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-62294965303968357562014-11-16T14:08:05.117-05:002014-11-16T14:08:05.117-05:00Do not have system wide data. Can only tell you an...Do not have system wide data. Can only tell you anecdotally that some school administrators are not pleased with the program's pass/fail rates for credit recovery.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-40447110387491756192014-11-16T14:07:00.531-05:002014-11-16T14:07:00.531-05:00Wireless Generation, Klein and Murdoch - ground ze...Wireless Generation, Klein and Murdoch - ground zero for conflict of interest.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-15955015804845548572014-11-16T14:06:15.029-05:002014-11-16T14:06:15.029-05:00Just used your comment as focus for a new post, Ha...Just used your comment as focus for a new post, Harris:<br /><br />http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-are-bloomberg-and-klein-still.html<br /><br />I added the NYCHA computer system ($36 million), the FDNY and Sanitation Department GPS mess ($7.3 million) and the EMT tablet mess (which they used to try and partly explain the 911 system mess back in 2013) to your list of Bloomberg tech boondoggles.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-19555649911087664162014-11-16T13:57:35.739-05:002014-11-16T13:57:35.739-05:00Amplify has been bleeding - first the tablet fiasc...Amplify has been bleeding - first the tablet fiasco in Guilford NC, then the inBloom disaster (Amplify was the prime subcontractor for this $100M + Gates project) and now this.<br /><br />Question: where do you get the pass/fail data from the Izone?Leonie Haimsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317355552298136811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-46576955669366375932014-11-16T13:23:26.612-05:002014-11-16T13:23:26.612-05:00ARIS and Amplify reek with the stench of fraud. Th...ARIS and Amplify reek with the stench of fraud. They are the obvious follies of Joel klein's untethered educational fantasies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-17672258279391937772014-11-16T12:41:49.469-05:002014-11-16T12:41:49.469-05:00In 2012 companies affiliated with Klein were given...In 2012 companies affiliated with Klein were given $10 million in contracts to manage the ARIS system. This is one of the numerous conflicts of interest Klein has been involved with in the past few years. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-55592184131163104842014-11-16T11:38:48.521-05:002014-11-16T11:38:48.521-05:00I thought you and your readers might be interested...I thought you and your readers might be interested in an article I wrote on Schoolbook on Jan. 28 in the long, painful lead-up to the contract negotiations called "Cut Waste at Education Department Before Negotiating Teachers Contract."<br /><br />One could put any number of the technology and organizational and procurement boondoggles from the Bloomberg Era in any order of waste, perversity or simple ineffectiveness: my top candidates were SESIS (the "Special Education Student Information System"), your very own beloved ARIS, failure to collect hundreds of millions in federal and state reimbursements to the City for providing "related services" to students with disabilities because the DOE has no effective way to capture the information that would support the claims, stopping non-competitive contracts and procurements to "DOE-friendly" organizations and reforming or eliminating the failed and expensive school network systems.<br /><br />I have always found it remarkable that the man who was responsible for building one of the most successful financial technology companies in the world could not get a single effective technology system build during his time in the City-- ARIS, SESIS, City-Time, Enhanced 911--but yet he and Joel Klein were lionized as visionaries and effective managers by many who wanted to believe.<br /><br />ARIS we hardly knew ye but we're so glad to see you go.<br /><br />http://www.wnyc.org/story/opinion-cut-waste-coming-table-over-teachers-contract/Harris L.noreply@blogger.com