Perdido Street School

Turns out Bloomberg can actually use his beloved free market to keep down costs for city employees - who knew? Mayor Bloomberg has discov...

Last week, Comptroller John Liu called for the NYCDOE to hire more guidance counselors, specifically college counselors , to help students ...

So many scandals in the Bloomberg administration, you need a scorecard to tell who is who. Here at Perdido Street School, we're big on a...

Want to know where some of the money DOE tech consultant Willard Lanham stole from the DOE ended up? It ended up paying for the picture of h...

Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools Richard Condon said the following about the oversight capabilities of the DOE on its ...

CityTime comes to the NYCDOE: A former consultant for the Department of Education surrendered to federal authorities on Thursday to face cha...

From Juan Gonzalez in the Daily News: A major technology contractor for the Department of Education has been using workers in Turkey and Ind...

In today's Daily News, Juan Gonzalez turns both barrels onto the story that the rest of the NY media seem to ignore - fiscally "pr...

The numbers just don't make sense. There used to be 82,000 teachers in NYC. Now there's 75,000. But enrollment is up. Class sizes ar...

Let's be honest here - Bloomberg wants to hand the New Teacher Project a $20 million contract to hire new teachers because a) he loves h...

Gotham Schools has the story: Comptroller John Liu rejected a $20 million contract for teacher recruitment today, calling the proposal waste...

The Mayor of Money is out of control. As each audit conducted by John Liu shows, Bloomberg overspends on outside consultants, programs and c...

If calling the Cuomo LIFO proposal (a bill that undercuts teacher tenure and seniority, IMO) a scam doesn't work, then you try and make ...

From the WTF? file: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in unveiling his budget plan on Thursday, summed up New York City’s financial health with a ...

And Bloomberg gave a rubberstamp to the Payroll Administration Director: The Bloomberg administration official responsible for overseeing a ...

There is a NYCDOE connection the CityTime payroll project scandal that saw six people arrested, four of whom were on the city payroll as con...

I guess only teachers and schools need to be held accountable? An MTA board will be asked next week to hire the company behind CityTime, a c...

The salary and benefit cuts, I mean: BRIDGEWATER -- The 1,360-member Bridgewater Raritan Education Association voted to approve $1.4 million...

Juan Gonzalez reports that city controller John Liu plans has nixed a no-bid contract Bloomberg handed to Republican party cronies of his f...

The NY Daily News reported yesterday that Chancellor Joel Klein plans to award a $206 million dollar contract to a school bus company run b...