Showing posts with label privatization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privatization. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Will The Families For Excellent Schools Race Baiting Ad Hurt The Charter Movement?

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Michael Fiorillo on the Families for Excellent Schools race-baiting ad: Regarding FES's charges of racism against De Blasio, see Proj...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Cuomo's School Receivership Program Is "Stack Ranking" For Schools, Designed To Break Up The System

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Fred LeBrun in the Times-Union dissects Cuomo's vaunted school receivership program: In the Capital Region, only Albany's William...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

What A Real Solution To "Failing Schools" Would Look Like

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A commenter named Dutch left this at the Capitol Confidential piece about NYSED announcing 144 schools going into "receivership":...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

NYSED Threatens To Close School That's Already Being Phased Out (UPDATED)

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Classic NYSED: SED puts Bronx's PS 64 on its list of "persistently struggling" schools. But DOE says the school is already ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

53 Assembly Dems Push For Carl Heastie To Back De Blasio Over Cuomo On School Reform

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From Ken Lovett at the Daily News: ALBANY — Dozens of Assembly Democrats are pressing Speaker Carl Heastie to side with Mayor de Blasio...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Daily News Carries Andrew Cuomo's Education Reform Water

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No links to these stories (they don't need the extra traffic) but the Daily News is doing a five days "New York's Schools In Cr...
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Time For An Education Summit That Doesn't Emanate From The Governor's Office

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Ken Mitchell, former superintendent of the South Orangetown school district and current associate professor of education at Manhattanville C...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Small Coterie Of Hedge Fundies Have Bought New York State And Governor Cuomo

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Juan Gonzalez in the Daily News: Hedge fund executives have unleashed a tsunami of money the past few years aimed at getting New York’s ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Stephanie Miner: Cuomo's Reforms "Scapegoat Teachers"

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From Syracuse.com: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has once again challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time by demanding more money ...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

NY Post Tells Lies Around Wall Street And Education Reform

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Bob McManus in today's NY Post: New York’s education cartel has been set back on its heels by a new breed of reformers, and the union...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Cuomo Calls For Privatization Of "Failing" Schools

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From the NY Post: Gov. Cuomo, at another Bronx event, said 44 of the 178 schools in the state labeled as failing are in the borough. And...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Public Schools Outperform Charter Schools In Minnesota

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From the Star-Tribune: Students in most Minnesota charter schools are failing to hit learning targets and are not achieving adequate aca...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Independent Democratic Conference Unveil Backdoor Voucher Plan For Private Schools In New York

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The Independent Democratic Conference released an agenda today and this was in it (emphasis added): Creating an Education Investment Tax...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

LoHud Editorial: What Really Needs To Be Done To Fix New York's Teacher Evaluation System

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The LoHud editorial board nailed the APPR teacher evaluation sham Cuomo's pushing in this editorial that just went up. Here's the ...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

You Can Say That Again

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Tweet of the Day: I will say it again. Andrew Cuomo is a much greater danger to teachers and public education than Time Magazine — Mark ...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Why Is Randi Weingarten Willing To Fight TIME Magazine For Teacher Bashing, But Not Andrew Cuomo?

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For the past couple of weeks, AFT President Randi Weingarten has been fighting the good fight against TIME Magazine for running this cover: ...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Cuomo Vows To Break Public School "Monopoly" - I.E., To Privatize The Public School System

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I posted this morning how Governor Cuomo has promised the Daily News editorial board that he will push for "more rigorous" teache...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

FireDogLake: Time To Fight Corporate Democrats Who Shill For Education Privatization

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DS Wright at FireDogLake: While President Obama’s former spokesman, Robert Gibbs, manages a national public relations campaign against te...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Time For Dennis Walcott To Just Go The ---- Away

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Dennis Walcott shares the results of his latest physical for all New Yorkers to rejoice in: Smart government policies to improve longevit...
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

New York Goes From 8th To 20th In Education Performance Under Andrew Cuomo

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Interesting piece of data in Pedro Noguera's Time-Union opinion piece decrying the Cuomo budget: With Gov. Andrew Cuomo emerging as...
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