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Explain the rationale of this: The city may lay off 8,500 teachers, but education officials still want approval for a contract of up to $5 m...

Kaplan Test Prep, which owns the Washington Post Company, is putting teacher-bashing Newsweek up for sale: The Washington Post Company said ...

Had a little flood from the weather yesterday. Hoping to soon have life back to "normal," but it's been a chaotic few days.

The article comes the day before Mayor Moneybags and Governor Sexual Harassment Is Only A Crime When It's Done By Somebody Other Than M...

Dear Senators, As a veteran teacher in a traditional public school that has been both A rated by the NYCDOE and received a "Well Develo...

Time to mobilize and make calls. Mayor Moneybags and Governor Sexual Harassment Is Not A Crime are going to be very happy if this charter ca...

From Political Wire: "It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very adv...

Saint Vincent's Hospital officially goes out of business at 8 AM today after 160 years of treating patients. All 3,500 employees will l...

Every once in a while there is a story about education that actually warms my heart. 18,000 students walked out of New Jersey classrooms yes...

Political Wire reports that President Accountability has rolled out his strategy for the 2010 midterm elections: In in a new video, Preside...

The NY Post reports today in their phony WAR ON CHARTERS series that a bill has been introduced that would force charter schools to admit ...

The NY Post has been running a series the past few weeks called "War on Charters." The gist of the series is that the valiant folk...

Seriously, this is troubling, though given the history of the UFT lately, not unexpected: Bloomberg heaped praise on UFT President Mike Mulg...

If you read George Will's slobbering column on Chris Christie vs. the NJEA yesterday , you'd be under the impression that Chris Chri...

Mayor Moneybags says taxes are for the little people, not for the rich and powerful: NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday said the...

Today Bill Perkins is holding hearings on charter school oversight. Charter proponents say they already have more oversight than regular pub...

The NY Times ran an article this morning about how the 2010-2011 school year is shaping up to be the most "austere" in decades, a...

Not much of it at the NY Post where they have three, count 'em, three (no link - go find them yourself if you want, but I'm not prov...

Via Barry at The Big Picture , a new use for the term "Goldman Sachs": The term “GS”, now entering the popular lexicon as a verb, ...

I don't usually add pictures to blog posts at this blog, but that picture to the left is too emblematic to NOT put up. That is Barack O...