Perdido Street School

This will be the last post at Perdido Street School blog. I have been blogging for ten years at various sites. For reasons that have bee...

A good night to listen to this Love album in full:

From the Buffalo News: An update on contract negotiations with the Buffalo Teachers Federation took center stage at Wednesday’s meeting ...

Dust off those resumes: Director of Communications Job posted by: Democrats for Education Reform ...

From the NY Post: ALBANY — Many Big Apple students, including the children of several state lawmakers, can’t even sign their own names, ...

There is simply no way to justify the "game" of football any longer - it is, quite literally, murder: When the former Giants ...

Yesterday three Regents exams were given - Global History, English and Geometry. All over the city, high school juniors who had previously...

You can see here the fun I had on twitter with an NYSUT hack over the APPR test score moratorium that isn't actually a moratorium since...

It's also an emblem for how so little has changed from Bloomberg to de Blasio at the NYCDOE: Tom Porton is used to drama: Since arriv...

This is cross-posted from New York Rank & File and it's in response to the propaganda NYSUT has been spewing forth about there bei...

From the NY Times: More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from New York State on a contentious measurement th...

Had some fun on Twitter yesterday with a couple of union hacks, one the PR guy from NYSUT, that went something like this: @perdidostscho...

Looks like Mayor de Blasio was looking to head off last year's "Cuomo shuts the MTA without telling NYC!" story line this ti...

NJ.com this morning: TRENTON  — With most of the Garden State under a blizzard watch, Gov.  Chris Christie was asked Thursday afternoon ...

Keshia Clukey at Politico NY: ALBANY — As education commissioner MaryEllen Elia updated a Senate panel on her agency's 2016 prioriti...

Well that didn't take long, did it? Two weeks ago , Gov. Andrew Cuomo convened the press to announce that he would achieve what gov...

Not the best poll numbers around but at least the hemorrhaging has been staunched for now: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s approval rating has imp...

Bill Mahoney at Politico NY: ALBANY – In the first year of the 2018 gubernatorial election cycle, the list of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s larges...