tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post8938733816108934267..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Why Not Make The 22 Year Old Charter School Guy Who Lied About His Diploma A Member Of The Board Of Regents?reality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-33160404233633626592014-11-25T15:40:29.067-05:002014-11-25T15:40:29.067-05:00And there is more....
http://www.democratandchron...And there is more....<br /><br />http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/11/25/questions-raised-year-old-charter-founder/70096942/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-38982254631331373352014-11-25T11:28:49.076-05:002014-11-25T11:28:49.076-05:00Thanks for the update. That means his replacement...Thanks for the update. That means his replacement will be chosen by State Senators Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Ruth Hassel-Thompson and George Latimer, Assemblymembers Gary Pretlow, Shelley Mayer and a handful of others. Too powerful a crew for Shelly Silver to pull another "Finn" stunt.Harrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-90256013506503571082014-11-25T07:29:34.771-05:002014-11-25T07:29:34.771-05:00Harry Phillips has announced that he is retiring i...Harry Phillips has announced that he is retiring in March. Sadly, this WSM would make a better Regent then whom ever they will most likely choose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-24080195668457559782014-11-24T23:20:45.396-05:002014-11-24T23:20:45.396-05:00The story behind Ms. Finn: Deborah Glick and Cathy...The story behind Ms. Finn: Deborah Glick and Cathy Nolan, in the Assembly, chaired the selection committee for the last slate of Regents. Three of them were shoe-ins for re-election. Shelly Silver was under pressure to show that being a Regent was not an appointment for life and to respond to the parent/teacher uprising in the aftermath of John King's disastrous "Common Core" listening tour last year. <br /><br />The incumbent Regent from the Albany district, James Jackson, suddenly found himself without protectors in the Assembly. The two long-serving Assemblymenbers from the Albany district, Ron Canestrari and Jack McEneny, retired in 2012 so Mr. Jackson had no political "godfather" to protect him in the Legislature and was forced to resign from the Board of Regents the day before the election. Silver rejected the candidates proposed by Glick/Nolan and ordered them to hold a special one-person hearing without requisite public notice for Ms. Finn so that he could implant the fortune-telling Ms. Finn into the Albany district seat. Why Finn? Who knows. It served Speaker Silver's purposes for some reason.<br /><br />A large number of Regents are up for re-election next March. The Queens district is vacant but will be chosen by the Queens members. The Brooklyn Regent, Kathy Cashin, is safe. The Westchester Regent, Harry Philips is safe if he wants it again, otherwise the legislative members there are senior enough to put whomever they want into his seat. The Long Island Regent, Tilles, is safe or will only be replaced by the legislative members from Nassau/Suffolk. The two upstate Regents, Dawson and Bennett, safe. The At-Large Regent, Cottrell, probably safe but could be subject to Silveresque machination unless he's a "made man."<br /><br />Silver probably has no room to play games next year and may not feel the pressure that he did last year to make his move. Poor Mr. Jackson was wrong-guy, wrong-place, one of a kind minnow swimming around for a shark to eat.<br /><br />If you like your Board of Regents this year you'll probably still like it next year.Harrisnoreply@blogger.com